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fertile
[fur-tl, -tahyl]
adjective
bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific.
fertile soil.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: ,bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: ,abundantly productive.
a fertile imagination.
Synonyms: ,Antonyms: ,producing an abundance (usually followed by of orin ).
a land fertile of wheat.
conducive to productiveness.
fertile showers.
Biology.Ìý
fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated.
capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
Botany.Ìý
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.Ìý(of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons.
Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.
produced in abundance.
fertile
/ ˈ´Úɜ˳ٲ¹Éª±ô /
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
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 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
- fertilely adverb
- fertileness noun
- half-fertile adjective
- half-fertilely adverb
- half-fertileness noun
- nonfertile adjective
- overfertile adjective
- prefertile adjective
- unfertile adjective
- ˈ´Ú±ð°ù³Ù¾±±ô±ð²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
- ˈ´Ú±ð°ù³Ù¾±±ô±ð±ô²â adverb
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of fertile1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his eyes peeled for signs of trouble.
And yet Reform couldn't quite beat either of them in what was quite a fertile environment for a party promising to shake things up.
“I had been thinking of this time as a dry season, but it had been the most fertile of my life since childhood,†Febos writes.
The Nazis even drain the Mediterranean Sea to produce vast, fertile plantation land to be tilled by slaves.
The queen remains fertile throughout her long life, producing between three and nearly thirty pups in a single litter starting at one year of age — and living, and breeding, for another 29 years.
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