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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: Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides. Compare fissile (def. 2).
produced in abundance.
SEE MORE SEE LESS Origin of fertile First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English (from Middle French ), from Latin fertilis “fruitful,” akin to ferre “to bear”; see bear1 , -ile
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synonym study for fertile 1-3 . See productive.
OTHER WORDS FROM fertile fer·tile·ly, adverb fer·tile·ness, noun half-fertile, adjective half-fer·tile·ly, adverb
half-fer·tile·ness, noun non·fer·tile, adjective o·ver·fer·tile, adjective pre·fer·tile, adjective un·fer·tile, adjective
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Words nearby fertile ferry, ferryboat, ferry bridge, ferryman, fertigate, fertile , Fertile Crescent, fertile period, fertility, fertility cult, fertility drug
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Example sentences from the Web for fertile By this time, post-transactional activity was very fertile ground for Google.
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The app will show them the dates for your past, current, and predicted periods, fertile windows, and PMS.
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With 600,000 infections, South Africa has become a fertile testing ground for vaccines.
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SpaceX’s fundraising comes during a fertile period, both for the Tesla sister company and capital markets more broadly.
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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.
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The ground was fertile , with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.
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Some parts were arid, nearly barren, others green and fertile .
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Not even the most fertile imagination could have conjured a better monster-in-the-dark than IS.
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Of course the Internet, where the cat is king, has proved a fertile breeding ground for these ventures.
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In the case of the fertile fronds only the upper portion produces the clusters of spore cases.
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Calyx of the sterile flowers 4-parted, of the fertile 4-toothed.
The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States | Asa Gray
I had to pass over, I was informed, the most fertile and best cultivated tract of country in Norway.
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During the lifetimes of the temporary lakes enough sediment was deposited in them to form the basis for fertile soils.
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In the island of Guadaloupe there are mountains and fertile plains; it is watered by beautiful streams.
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British Dictionary definitions for fertile 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
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Derived forms of fertile fertilely , adverb fertileness , noun Word Origin for fertile C15: from Latin fertilis , from ferre to bear
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Words related to fertile productive, lush, fruitful, rich, abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, prolific, rank, teeming, virile
Medical definitions for fertile adj. Capable of conceiving and bearing young.
Fertilized. Used of an ovum.
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Scientific definitions for fertile 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.
Other words from fertile fertility noun The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.