But then it becomes ambiguous whether you're talking about fertilising the tree, or the tree fertilising something else. Perhaps self fertilising? But that sounds like reproduction.
And that's assuming we're living in a world where you can petition the World English Language Governing Body to make the necessary changes to the language.
But for better or worse that body doesn't exist so we are stuck with what we've got, and at the moment people talk about nitrogen fixing plants, so if you want to communicate with people, you need to use those terms.
That isn't clickbait, that's just making sure a headline doesn't turn into an off topic essay.
And that's assuming we're living in a world where you can petition the World English Language Governing Body to make the necessary changes to the language.
But for better or worse that body doesn't exist so we are stuck with what we've got, and at the moment people talk about nitrogen fixing plants, so if you want to communicate with people, you need to use those terms.
That isn't clickbait, that's just making sure a headline doesn't turn into an off topic essay.