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Topic: CROPS

fertilize

 verb
     
fer‧ti‧lize also fertilise British English [transitive]
1MBHBP to make new animal or plant life develop:
After the egg has been fertilized, it will hatch in about six weeks.
2TAC to put fertilizer on the soil to make plants grow
—fertilization noun [uncountable]
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