Fertilizer

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fertilizer \Fer"ti*lizer\, n.
     1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing
        principle, as a moth to an orchid. --A. R. Wallace.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fertilizer
       n : any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used
           to make soil more fertile [syn: {fertiliser}, {plant food}]