FERTILISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fertiliser mean? 

• FERTILISER (noun)
  The noun FERTILISER has 1 sense:

1. any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile

  Familiarity information: FERTILISER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FERTILISER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

fertiliser; fertilizer; plant food

Hypernyms ("fertiliser" is a kind of...):

chemical; chemical substance (material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules)

Meronyms (substance of "fertiliser"):

soda niter; sodium nitrate ((NaNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive)

niter; nitre; potassium nitrate; saltpeter; saltpetre ((KNO3) used especially as a fertilizer and explosive)

ammonium nitrate (used as an explosive and fertilizer and rocket propellant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fertiliser"):

organic; organic fertiliser; organic fertilizer (a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter)

 Context examples 

In the treatment with reduced fertiliser and mechanical weeding, the harvest was not different from the conventional treatments.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

The researchers calculated a reduction rate of 85-95 per cent for soils with urea and inhibitors, compared with soil with urea or soil without fertilisers.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

The system removed around 90 per cent of pollutants, including around 95 per cent of nitrogen, a fertiliser residue.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

Syngas is currently made from a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide, and is used to produce a range of commodities, such as fuels, pharmaceuticals, plastics and fertilisers.

(‘Artificial leaf’ successfully produces clean gas, University of Cambridge)

A significantly lower usage of fertilisers (about 50 per cent less than conventional levels) and non-herbicide treatments does not affect yields.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

The filter prototype, tested in Al Haouz, a rural district about 40 kilometres from Marrakech, removed a large amount of waste such as solid particles, organic pollution, nitrogen and fertiliser residue.

(Soil-based filter bricks clean up water for Moroccan farmers, SciDev.Net)

A Brazilian scientist who developed a method that reduces greenhouse gas emissions from sugarcane cultivation has been awarded a prize that each year recognises a researcher whose work has excelled in the area of fertiliser use.

(Method that cuts sugarcane emissions gets global prize, SciDev.Net)

The large-scale, multidisciplinary study on palm oil plantations, in the Jambi province in Indonesia, compared the yield associated with decreased versus conventional use of fertilisers, and with mechanical versus herbicide-based weed control.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

Palm oil production can be made less environmentally destructive by reducing the use of fertilisers and avoid using herbicides.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

The researchers note that reduced use of fertilisers had no detrimental effect on soil nutrients.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)