单词 | fertilizer |
释义 | fertilizern. 1. a. One who or that which fertilizes (land). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [noun] > making > agency fertilizera1661 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure fatnessc1420 amendment1483 manure1532 manuring1577 battling1600 dressing1600 worth1609 sucken1615 folding1626 fertilizera1661 sumen1662 recuperativec1679 field dressing1743 top-dressing1744 sweetener1765 settera1793 mendment1798 side dressing1819 substratum1822 manurer1829 liquid manure1837 soil amendment1915 side dress1920 Growmore1944 soil conditioner1952 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Kent 57 Saint-foime, or Holy-hay..being found to be a great Fertilizer of Barren-ground. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 377 The agency of snow as a fertilizer. 1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 38 500 The torrent, now the fertilizer, now the ravager of districts. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxv. 11 The march of Jehovah, the Fertiliser, may be traced by the abundance which he creates. b. said esp. of manures. ΚΠ 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 340 Saltpetre..when employed as a fertilizer, is generally sown by hand. 2. An agent of fertilization in plants. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > fecundation or impregnation > [noun] > impregnator or fertilizer impregnator1723 fertilizer1844 1844 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 30 Flies are good fertilizers. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life 473 Suitable fertilisers and other favourable conditions. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1661 |
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