FERTILISE Synonyms

• make fertile or productive

• introduce semen into (a female)

• food for domestic livestock

• provide as food

• give food to

• feed into; supply

• introduce continuously

• support or promote

• take in food; used of animals only

• serve as food for; be the food for

• move along, of liquids

• profit from in an exploitatory manner

• gratify

• provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

• a mixture of decaying vegetation and manure; used as a fertilizer

• convert to compost

• foster the growth of

• prepare for crops

• teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment

• adapt (a wild plant or unclaimed land) to the environment

• make better or improve in quality

• make wealthy or richer

• fill, as with a certain quality

• infuse or fill completely

• fertilize and cause to grow

• make pregnant

• a caustic substance produced by heating limestone

• a white crystalline oxide used in the production of calcium hydroxide

• a sticky adhesive that is smeared on small branches to capture small birds

• any of various related trees bearing limes

• any of various deciduous trees of the genus Tilia with heart-shaped leaves and drooping cymose clusters of yellowish often fragrant flowers; several yield valuable timber

• the green acidic fruit of any of various lime trees

• spread birdlime on branches to catch birds

• cover with lime so as to induce growth

• any animal or plant material used to fertilize land especially animal excreta usually with litter material

• spread manure, as for fertilization

• provide with nourishment

• give nourishment to

• place seeds in or on (the ground)

• introduce semen into (a female)