fertilise
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make fertile or productive
The course fertilized her imagination
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- fertilization derivation
- fertilizer derivation
Sense 2 verb
provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to
We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- fertilization derivation
- fertilizer derivation
- farming domain topic
Sense 3 verb
introduce semen into (a female)
Types & categories
- change hypernym
- stratify hyponym
- knock up hyponym
- impregnate hyponym
- cross-fertilize hyponym
- pollinate hyponym
Related & opposite
- insemination derivation
- semen derivation
- fertilization derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fertilization |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | fertilizer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fertilization |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | fertilizer |
| 2 | domain topic | Related & opposite | farming |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | enrich |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | nitrify |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | dung |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | topdress |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | insemination |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | semen |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | fertilization |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | stratify |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | knock up |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | impregnate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | cross-fertilize |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | pollinate |