fertiliser

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsfertilizerplant food

   Broaderchemical

   Narrowerorganic

Other forms of fertiliser

plural

fertilisers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fertiliser

What does fertiliser mean?

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

How many syllables are in fertiliser?

fertiliser has 4 syllables: fer-ti-li-ser. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for fertiliser?

Close synonyms include fertilizer, plant food. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fertiliser a common word?

fertiliser is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.