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💄 To make more feminine 🌱 To create female plants
to feminize

to feminize

7.9
To make plants produce female flowers or seeds
  • verb
  • /ˈfɛmɪnaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : feminizar
  • Farmers feminize their crops with specific techniques to maximize the production of female seeds.

Examples

  • To produce high yields, many growers prefer to feminize their cannabis plants to ensure only female flowers develop.

  • Short, Greenhouse Amsterdam (non-feminized... avoid the hermies, trust me) and DNA genetics (the DNA seeds can be hard to find, but it's worth the effort).

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  • The new breeding method allows us to effectively feminize the plants, ensuring a higher ratio of female flowers in our harvest.

Antonyms

to masculinize
  • Specialized
1 9.1

To make a person, animal, or body part develop male features, often by hormones

Surface Forms

feminize infinitive
feminized past
feminized past participle
feminizing present participle
feminizes third person singular

Morphology

feminize = feminine (transparent) = femin + ize

The horticultural sense is a domain-specific application of the productive verb formation 'feminine' + '-ize' meaning 'to make female', so the morphological relation is clear.

Etymology

Feminize in plant growing uses the same parts: feminine from Latin femina 'woman' and the ending -ize 'to make'. So to feminize plants is to cause them to develop female parts or to produce 'female' seeds, which growers do when they want plants that give flowers or buds.