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fertile
[ fur-tlor, especially British, -tahyl ]
adjective
- bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific:
fertile soil.
- bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
- abundantly productive:
a fertile imagination.
- producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in ):
a land fertile of wheat.
- conducive to productiveness:
fertile showers.
- Biology.
- fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated.
- capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
- Botany.
- capable of producing sexual reproductive structures.
- capable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen.
- having spore-bearing organs, as a frond.
- Physics. (of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons: Compare fissile ( def 2 ).
Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.
- produced in abundance.
fertile
/ ˈfɜːtaɪl /
adjective
- capable of producing offspring
- (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants
- (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
- biology
- capable of undergoing growth and development
fertile seeds
fertile eggs
- (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
- producing many offspring; prolific
- highly productive; rich; abundant
a fertile brain
- physics (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
- conducive to productiveness
fertile rain
fertile
/ fûr′tl /
- Capable of producing offspring, seeds, or fruit.
- Capable of developing into a complete organism; fertilized.
- Capable of supporting plant life; favorable to the growth of crops and plants.
Derived Forms
- ˈfertileness, noun
- ˈfertilely, adverb
Other Words From
- fertile·ly adverb
- fertile·ness noun
- half-fertile adjective
- half-fertile·ly adverb
- half-fertile·ness noun
- non·fertile adjective
- over·fertile adjective
- pre·fertile adjective
- un·fertile adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fertile1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
By this time, post-transactional activity was very fertile ground for Google.
What they have hit is the world’s most theoretically fertile dead end.
The app will show them the dates for your past, current, and predicted periods, fertile windows, and PMS.
With 600,000 infections, South Africa has become a fertile testing ground for vaccines.
SpaceX’s fundraising comes during a fertile period, both for the Tesla sister company and capital markets more broadly.
The Eighty-ninth Congress was potentially more fertile ground for the broad range of controversial programs on his dream agenda.
At present, not every woman is young enough, fertile enough, or healthy enough to have a baby using her own eggs or her own womb.
The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.
Some parts were arid, nearly barren, others green and fertile.
Not even the most fertile imagination could have conjured a better monster-in-the-dark than IS.
On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
San Antonio de Bexar lies in a fertile and well-irrigated valley, stretching westward from the river Salado.
The habitations of the poor are less wretched than those of Italy, but not equal to those of the fertile portion of Switzerland.
For most of the way the country is flat and fertile, and in good part devoted to Grazing, though considerable Wheat is grown.
It is not quite so level nor so perfectly cultivated as central Belgium, but is generally fertile and promises fairly.
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