英语词汇“fertile”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	fertile
释义	fer·tile \ˈfər]d.^əl, fə̄], fəi], ]t^əl sometimes ](ˌ)til, chiefly Brit ]ˌtīl\ adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French fertile, from Latin fertilis, from ferre to bear, produce — more at bear 1. a. : characterized by production of great quantities : abundant in yield : productive < prodigally fertile fields of ripening corn and oats > < peopled chiefly by three fertile families > < a fertile author with 50 books already published > < a philosophic tradition fertile in lucid writers > specifically : characterized by abundant resourcefulness of thought or imagination : creative, inventive < his mind fertile in projects for the advancement of his fellows — H.W.H.Knott > < the fertile handling of folk themes in his new composition > b. : produced abundantly : numerous, teeming < GI's … wading into the shore in numbers … prodigally fertile — John Mason Brown > 2. a. (1) : capable of sustaining abundant and vigorous vegetation : favorable to plant growth < fertile fields of loam > < made the soil fertile again by adding the needed chemicals > < a fertile region awaiting the plow > (2) : making the soil fertile : fertilizing (3) : affording favorable conditions or abundant possibilities for development < countries where such misery exists are fertile soil for Communist infiltration — New York Times Magazine > < what happens to responses during this period … would seem to offer a fertile field for research — Ralph Linton > b. of a seed or egg : capable of growing or developing c. (1) : capable of producing fruit : fruit-bearing < fertile flowers > < fertile trees > (2) of an anther : containing pollen (3) : developing spores or spore-bearing organs d. (1) : capable of breeding or reproducing especially as indicated by the prior production of viable offspring < a bull warranted fertile > (2) : likely to conceive or beget offspring < few men over 60 are highly fertile > (3) : potentially reproductive < few men of fertile age > (4) of an estrous cycle : marked by the production of one or more viable eggs e. of a bee : producing eggs 3. : capable of being converted into fissionable material < fertile uranium 238 > Synonyms: fecund, fruitful, prolific: fertile may apply to a soil facilitating ready growth or to something likened to a productive seed bed; it may also apply to persons or animals able to produce young < past fields where the wheat was high. Peaches grew in the orchards; it was a fertile country — S.V.Benét > < planted so deeply in fertile minds that even now they are sending up fresh crops — H.S.Canby > < India, where the people are more fertile than the land — Time > fecund may apply to whatever yields in abundance or with rapidity < giving lessons to a few of the fecund king's offspring — E.J.Kahn > < a good part of these inventions came to birth — or were further nourished — in the fecund mind of Leonardo da Vinci — Lewis Mumford > fruitful may apply to anything bearing or borne in abundance or in gratifying numbers or to conditions that facilitate such bearing < prefer that a coconut palm should be planted by an old woman who has many children, because they believe that a tree planted by so fruitful a woman will bear a plentiful crop of coconuts — J.G.Frazer > < rewarding land, too, much of it; rich, wide, and in years when the rains came, wonderfully fruitful — Russell Lord > < the enormously fruitful discovery that pitch of sound depends upon the length of the vibrating chord — Havelock Ellis > prolific stresses rapidity in production or reproduction and may or may not be derogatory < the defectives are appallingly prolific: the others have fewer children — G.B.Shaw > < the starling is so prolific that the flocks become immense — Richard Jefferies > < an extremely prolific writer whose literary output, if collected, might easily fill half-a-hundred volumes — Encyc. Americana >
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