fertilize, fertilise, feed (verb)

provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to

"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"

fertilize, fecundate, fertilise (verb)

make fertile or productive

"The course fertilized her imagination"

inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise (verb)

introduce semen into (a female)

fertilize (Verb)

To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.

fertilize (Verb)

To make more creative or intellectually productive.

fertilize (Verb)

To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

fertilize

Fertilisation or fertilization (see spelling differences), also known as generative fertilisation, syngamy and impregnation, is the fusion of gametes to give rise to a new individual organism or offspring and initiate its development. While processes such as insemination or pollination which happen before the fusion of gametes are also sometimes informally referred to as fertilisation, these are technically separate processes. The cycle of fertilisation and development of new individuals is called sexual reproduction. During double fertilisation in angiosperms the haploid male gamete combines with two haploid polar nuclei to form a triploid primary endosperm nucleus by the process of vegetative fertilisation.