a. Also -isable. [f. FERTILIZE + -ABLE. Cf. F. fertilisable.] a. Of land, etc.: Capable of being fertilized. b. Of the female, or an ovum: Susceptible of impregnation.
1832. R. Mudie, Bot. Annual, 140. The ovary is the really important part of the fertilizable organ, because it contains the seeds, the only part of the whole organization that is to be fertilized.
1877. Huxley, Anat. Inv. Anim., xii. 446. The neuters of Polistes gallica are distinguished from the perfect fertilisable female, by little more than their smaller size, and that they possess completely developed female organs.
1880. Burton, Reign Q. Anne, III. xviii. 197. Abundance of unfertile but fertilisable clay all around, to absorb organic matter.
