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Fertilize vs Fertilizable - What's the difference?

fertilize | fertilizable |

As a verb fertilize

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

As an adjective fertilizable is

capable of being fertilized.

fertilize

English

Alternative forms

* fertilise (mostly British)

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make (the soil) more fertile by adding nutrients to it.
  • (figuratively) To make more creative or intellectually productive.
    • to fertilize one's imagination
  • * '>citation
  • To cause to produce offspring through insemination; to inseminate.

    • fertilizable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being fertilized.