Illustration: At a rented vegetable plot, a gardener kneels beside a row of young eggplants and scatters a measured spoonful of fertilizer pellets onto the soil around one plant, keeping them away from its stem. An open plain bag beside the gardener reveals more of the same pellets.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

肥ひ料りょう

hiryou

fertilizer

Example sentences

肥料ひりょうのやりすぎで花はなが枯かれてしまった。
The flowers died from over-fertilization.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
知識ちしきというものは肥料ひりょうと同おなじで、広ひろまってこそ良よいのである。
Knowledge is like manure, it’s only good when spread.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
その結果けっか、雨あめが降ふれば、大量たいりょうの表土ひょうど、赤土あかつち、化学かがく肥料ひりょう、農薬のうやくが、海うみに流ながれだす。
As a result, when it rains, large amounts of topsoil, clay, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides are washed into the sea.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 肥料

肥fertilizer; get fatOnヒKunこえる・こえ・こやす
料fee; materialsOnリョウ

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