fertilize

1. V-T When an egg from the ovary of a woman or female animal is fertilized, a sperm from the male joins with the egg, causing a baby or young animal to begin forming. A female plant is fertilized when its reproductive parts come into contact with pollen from the male plant. 使受精; 使授粉

Certain varieties cannot be fertilized with their own pollen. 某些品种不能自花授粉。

...the normal sperm levels needed to fertilize the egg. …使卵子受精所需的正常精子水平。

2. fertilizationN-UNCOUNT 受精; 授粉

From fertilization until birth is about 266 days. 从受精到出生大约是266天。

3. V-T To fertilize land means to improve its quality in order to make plants grow well on it, by spreading solid animal waste or a chemical mixture on it. 使肥沃

The faeces contain nitrogen which fertilizes the soil. 排泄物含有肥沃土壤的氮。