sterileadjective
uk/ˈster.aɪl/us/ˈster.əl/sterile adjective (UNABLE TO PRODUCE)
(of a living being) unable to produce young, or (of land) unable to produce plants or crops:
Mules are usually sterile.
One of the side effects of the drug could be to make men sterile.
having no imagination, new ideas, or energy:
a sterile argument
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Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- egg
- embryo
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- incubate
- infertile
- inseminate
- lamb
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- seminal
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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Fertile or infertile land
Tedious and uninspiring
sterile adjective (CLEAN)
completely clean and free from dirt and bacteria:
The operation must be carried out under sterile conditions.
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Clean & tidy
- (as) clean as a (new) pin idiom
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- apple pie
- aseptic
- be in apple-pie order idiom
- manicured
- neat
- neatly
- neatness
- ordered
- orderly
- shipshape
- span
- spick
- spotless
- squeaky-clean
- stainless
- straight
- tidy
- trim
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