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Webster 1913 Edition


Fertilizer

Fer′ti-lizer

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Noun.
1.
One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid.
A. R. Wallace.
2.
That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial substances which make plants grow better, as manure, guano, phosphate of lime, ammonium nitrate, etc.