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"FERTILIZERS" is a plural of: fertilizer. |
Date "FERTILIZERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Substances or mixtures that are added to the soil to supply nutrients or to make available nutrients already present in the soil, in order to increase plant growth and productivity. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Topsoil as well as farm fertilizers and other potential pollutants run off unprotected farm fields when heavy rains occur. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | China still must rely on importing fertilizers in large quantities. (references) | |
China mainly imports fertilizers from the U.S., Russia, and Canada. (references) | ||
Profertil's fertilizer plant will reduce demand for imported fertilizers. (references) | ||
Economic History | Trinidad | Output of nitrogenous fertilizers is increasing yearly. (references) |
China | These raw materials are essential elements of most fertilizers. (references) | |
Nepal | Nepal is totally dependent on imports of fertilizers such as urea. (references) | |
Political Economy | INDIA | Agricultural commodity procurement prices have risen substantially during the past nine years, while prices for nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers, rural electricity, and irrigation are subsidized. (references) |
INDIA | Pricing Policies: Central and state governments still regulate the prices of many essential products (e.g., food-grains, sugar, basic medicines, energy, fertilizers, and water), while many basic foods are under a dual pricing system. (references) | |
URUGUAY | Among these are pharmaceuticals, some types of medical equipment and chemicals, firearms, radioactive materials, fertilizers, vegetable products, frozen embryos, livestock, bull semen, anabolics, sugar, seeds, hormones, meat, and vehicles. (references) | |
Trade | Dominican Rep | Agro-chemicals and fertilizers require an import license from the Secretariat of State for Agriculture. (references) |
Spain | Fertilizers and Fungicides: Imported fertilizers must be registered with the local Agriculture Ministry Office. (references) | |
Jamaica | This would include basic foods, medicines, certain fertilizers and insecticides, books and some agricultural input. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | We will place the matchless skill and the resources of our own great America, in farming and in fertilizers, at the service of those countries committed to develop a modern agriculture. |
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| "FERTILIZERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.61% of the time. "FERTILIZERS" is used about 176 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 92.61% | 163 | 24,498 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.39% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 176 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| India | Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers Co. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "FERTILIZERS": animal fertilizers ♦ chemical fertilizers ♦ drilled fertilizers. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "FERTILIZERS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gødningsstoffer,undtagen varer henhørende under gruppe 272 (other than those of group 272). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | meststoffen,m.u.v.die van groep 272 (other than those of group 272). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | muut kuin ryhmään 272 sisältyvät (other than those of group 272), lannoitteet (other than those of group 272). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | engrais,autres que ceux du groupe 272. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Düngemittel (artificial manure, chemical fertilizer, dressing, fertiliser, fertilizer, manure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βιομηχανικά λιπάσματα,εκτός από αυτά που αναφέρονται στην ομάδα 272 (other than those of group 272). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | concimi,diversi da quelli del gruppo 272 (other than those of group 272), Concimi (fertiliser, fertilizer, manure). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ertilizersfay adubos,não incluídos no grupo 272 (other than those of group 272). (various references) минеральные удобрения (chemical fertilizers). (various references) abonos, excepto los que figuran en el grupo 272 (other than those of group 272). (various references) myllad gödsling (drilled fertilizers), Kommittén för genomförande av förordningen om gödselmedel (Committee on the implementation of the Regulation relating to fertilizers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"FERTILIZERS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: feritilizer, fertiliser, fertilisier, fertlizer, fertlizers, fetilizer. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "FERTILIZERS" (pronounced fer"tulī'zerz) |
| 6 | -u l ī' z er z | analyzers, stabilizers, sterilizers, tranquilizers. |
| 4 | -ī' z er z | advertisers, appetizers, colonizers, exercisers, franchisers, ionizers, itemizers, merchandisers, organizers, sympathizers, synthesizers. |
| 3 | -z er z | abusers, accusers, advisers, advisors, appraisers, blazers, browsers, bulldozers, Caesars, cleansers, composers, cruisers, freezers, fundraisers, geysers, incisors, lasers, losers, mousers, raisers, razors, scissors, stargazers, supervisors, trailblazers, trousers, tweezers, users, visors. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-z" | |
-1 letter: fertilizer, fertilizes, sterilizer. | |
-2 letters: fertilize, filterers, refilters, rifleries, sterilize, terrifies. | |
-3 letters: feistier, ferities, ferrites, fieriest, filister, filterer, flirters, flirtier, refilter, reifiers, triflers. | |
-4 letters: felsite, ferlies, ferrels, ferrets, ferries, ferrite, fertile, fierier, filters, firelit, flirter, friezes, fritzes, frizers, lefties, leister, liefest, lifters, refiles, refires, reflets, reflies, refries, reifier, reifies, reliefs, reliers, retiles, retires, retries, riflers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-l-r-r-s-t-z" | |
+3 letters: overfertilizes. | |
+5 letters: trifluoperazines. | |
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