Other forms: fertilisers
A fertiliser is something added to soil to make plants grow faster. Spread fertiliser, a nitrogen fertiliser, organic fertiliser.
The three numbers on a bag are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, in that order. Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser is made from air by a process invented in 1909, and roughly half the world is fed because of it.
1nounfertiliserSomething added to soil to make plants grow faster.
“The farmer spread fertiliser on the fields in early spring.”
fertiliser is a substance.
Also accepted in games: fertilizer
fertilizer comes from fertilize + -er.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA