fertilizer Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile
    plant food; fertiliser.

WordNet


Fer"ti*lizer noun
Definitions
  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 manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.

Webster 1913