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v. fertil·ized, fertil·izing, fertil·izes
2. To make (soil, for example) fertile: Compost fertilizes the soil.
3. To spread fertilizer on: used a mechanical spreader to fertilize the lawn.
To spread fertilizer.

fer′til·iz′a·ble adj.


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Their method, which is still being fine-tuned, has a much lower risk of defective embryos but may raise fewer ethical concerns because the DNA transfer happens before the egg has been fertilised, experts said.
The law passed two years has banned the freezing and storing of fertilised eggs on religious grounds.
If it is legal to see aborted human fertilised embryos as not wholly human, regardless of time factor, then we should treat a hybrid of human/animal fertilised embryo with the same vision.
We know the egg was fertilised in the correct way and once fertilised the natural process effectively locks the fertilised egg.
Therefore, although it was then stored in a medium that may have been contaminated, there is zero question it was wrongly fertilised.
The FPA admit emergency contraceptive pills can stop a fertilised egg settling in the womb - this in fact is the destruction of early human life - a chemical abortion.
Populations of 5 groups of soil fauna (Scarabaeidae, nematodes, enchytraeids, rotifers, tardigrades) were higher in fertilised soils.
Under more interventionist management the land is oversown with legumes and grasses and fertilised with sulfur (S) superphosphate.
Soil acidification may require lime application; fertilised and oversown pastures are lime-responsive at pH [is less than] 5.
But her dreams of IVF treatment were shattered when her fiance, Howard Johnston, who willingly fertilised the eggs, said he now wanted the embryos destroyed.
So she had 11 healthy eggs removed and fertilised last October before the ovaries were removed.
Cloning forces us to abandon the old arguments supporting special treatment for fertilised eggs.