fertilizer
/ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/US/ˈfɜːɹtəlaɪzəɹ/
fertilizer noun: a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
Noun
fertilizer (countable and uncountable, plural fertilizers)
- A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
- The farmer spread fertiliser across the fields.
- Organic fertilisers are usually better for the environment.
- A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
- Human remains, especially obscured or to be forgotten.
- “Complainant reported being threatened by Trump’s then head of security that, if she ever talked of what went on there or who she saw, he would ”end up as fertilizer for the back nine holes like the other c--ts’,” it continued.2026 January 30, Farrah Tomazin, “Woman Told FBI Trump Abused Her at 13, Epstein Files Reveal”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2026
- Synonyms:
- worm food
fertilizer meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
fertilizer in Hindi
- a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants
- उर्वरक urvarak
fertilizer in Tamil
- உரம்
fertilizer in Urdu
- a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants
- کھاد khād
fertilizer in Bengali
- a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants
- সার śar
More languagesFewer languages
- fertilizer in Malayalam
- വളം vaḷaṁ
- fertilizer in Kannada
- ಗೊಬ್ಬರ, ಈಟು
- fertilizer in Punjabi
- ਖਾਦ khādă
- fertilizer in Assamese
- সাৰ xar
- fertilizer in Pashto
- سره sǝ́ra
- fertilizer in Tagalog
- pataba
- fertilizer in Arabic
- سَمَاد samād
- fertilizer in Malay
- baja
- fertilizer in Indonesian
- pupuk
- fertilizer in Thai
- ปุ๋ย bpǔi
- fertilizer in Vietnamese
- phân bón, phân
- fertilizer in Myanmar
- မြေဩဇာ mreau:ja
Examples of fertilizer in a sentence
- Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.
- Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.
- The farmer coapplied fertilizer and herbicide to the field.
Synonyms of fertilizer
Forms of fertilizer
| plural | fertilizers |
|---|---|
| alternative UK | fertiliser |
Origin of fertilizer
From fertilize + -er.
Words formed from fertilizer
- antifertilizer
- biofertilizer
- hyperfertilizer
- microfertilizer
- nanofertilizer
- nonfertilizer
- over-fertilization
Questions about fertilizer
- What does fertilizer mean?
- Fertilizer means a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
- What is fertilizer in Hindi?
- Fertilizer in Hindi is उर्वरक (urvarak). See Fertilizer meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is fertilizer?
- Fertilizer is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fertilizer?
- Fertilizer is pronounced /ˈfɜːtəlaɪzə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of fertilizer?
- The plural of fertilizer is fertilizers.
Words near fertilizer in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: fertilizer (page history and authors); fertilizer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വളം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); fertilizer (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਖਾਦ (Punjabi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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