英语词汇“fertilization”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

fertile /fûrˈtīl or (US) -təl/

adjective

Able to bear or produce young, fruit, etc abundantly

Giving such ability

Rich in resources

Inventive

Capable of breeding, hatching, or germinating

Able to become fissile or fissionable (physics)

ORIGIN: Fr, from L fertilis, from ferre to bear

ferˈtilely adverb

fertility /-tilˈi-ti/ noun

Fruitfulness, richness, abundance

The state of being fertile

The ability to produce young

The number or percentage of eggs produced by a species or individual that develop into living young (cf fecundity; ecology)

fertilization or fertilisation /-ti-lī-zāˈshən/ noun

The act or process of fertilizing

ferˈtilize or ferˈtilise transitive verb

To make fertile or fruitful
To enrich
To impregnate
To pollinate
(of a male gamete, esp a sperm cell) to fuse with a female gamete (esp an egg cell) to form a zygote

ferˈtilizer or ferˈtiliser noun

A person or thing that fertilizes

Fertile Crescent noun

A crescent-shaped region stretching from Armenia to Arabia, formerly fertile but now mainly desert, considered to be the cradle of civilization

fertile material noun

An isotope (eg uranium-238) that can be readily transformed by the capture of a neutron into fissionable material (plutonium-239)

fertility cult noun

A religious cult involving ceremonies intended to ensure fruitful harvests

fertility drug noun

A drug given to apparently infertile women to induce ovulation