fertilize的词源

英文词源

fertilize (v.)

1640s, "make fertile;" see fertile + -ize. Its biological sense of "unite with an egg cell" is first recorded 1859. Related: Fertilized; fertilizing.

中文词源

fertilize：使受精

来自fertile, 能生育的。-ize, 使。

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