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.
例句
Certain varieties cannot be fertilised with their own pollen.某些物種只能異花授粉。...the normal sperm levels needed to fertilise the female egg...能讓卵子受孕所需的正常精子水平
VERB
給…施肥;使肥沃
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.
例句
The faeces contain nitrogen and it is that which fertilises the desert soil.糞便含氮，而正是氮可以肥化荒蕪的土地。...chemically fertilized fields.施用化肥的田地
英漢詞典釋義
vt.
施肥
Only one sperm fertilizes an egg.只有一個精子使卵子受精。
英英詞典釋義
Verb
1. provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to;
"We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"