Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fertilizer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fertilizer \Fer"ti*lizer\, n.
1. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing
principle, as a moth to an orchid. --A. R. Wallace.
2. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial
manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fertilizer
n : any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used
to make soil more fertile [syn: {plant food}]
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