"fertilize" meaning in English

See fertilize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈfəːtɪlʌɪz/ Audio: en-us-fertilize.ogg [US] Forms: fertilize [canonical], fertilizes [third-person, singular], fertilized [past], fertilized [past, participle], fertilizing [present, participle]
Head templates: {{verb|fertiliz|e}} [POS TABLE]
  1. Fertilizing helps to make the soil more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
    Sense id: simple-fertilize-en-verb-jQXXpnKN
  2. If something is fertilized, it will develop into a fetus.
    Sense id: simple-fertilize-en-verb-KFRC0NMw Categories (other): Biology
     
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fertilize",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilizes",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilized",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilizing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fertiliz",
        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Fertilizing helps to make the soil more fertile by adding nutrients to it."
      ],
      "id": "simple-fertilize-en-verb-jQXXpnKN"
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Biology",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something is fertilized, it will develop into a fetus."
      ],
      "id": "simple-fertilize-en-verb-KFRC0NMw",
      "raw_tags": [
        "biology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfəːtɪlʌɪz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-fertilize.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fertilize"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fertilize",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilizes",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilized",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilized",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fertilizing",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fertiliz",
        "2": "e"
      },
      "expansion": "[POS TABLE]",
      "name": "verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Fertilizing helps to make the soil more fertile by adding nutrients to it."
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something is fertilized, it will develop into a fetus."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "biology"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfəːtɪlʌɪz/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-fertilize.ogg",
      "raw_tags": [
        "Audio"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fertilize"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fertilize meaning in English (0.8kB)

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the simplewiktionary dump dated 2024-12-20 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.