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Categories: Horticulture, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles with short description, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Fertilizers

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Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile WordNet 3.0

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Any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

A fertilizer or fertiliser is any material of natural or synthetic origin that is applied to soil or to plant tissues to supply plant nutrients. Wikipedia

Material of natural or synthetic origin applied to soils or to plants to supply essential nutrients Wikidata

A fertilizer, natural or synthesized, containing nitrogen available for fixation by vegetation, such as potassium nitrate or ammonium nitrate. OmegaWiki

Fertilizer manufactured from chemicals; excessive use of them can cause pollution, when all the chemicals are not taken up by the plants and the excess is leached out of the soil into rivers and may cause algal bloom. OmegaWiki

Substance added to soil for the purpose of promoting plant life, usually containing nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, e.g. manure, guano, rock phosphates. OmegaWiki

A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants. Wiktionary

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