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adjective
1.
bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific: fertile soil.
2.
bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
3.
abundantly productive: a fertile imagination.
4.
producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in): a land fertile of wheat.
5.
EXPANDconducive to productiveness: fertile showers.
6.
Biology.
a.
fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated.
b.
capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
7.
Botany.
a.
capable of producing sexual reproductive structures.
b.
capable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen.
c.
having spore-bearing organs, as a frond.
8.
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).
9.
COLLAPSEproduced in abundance.
Origin:
1425–75; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin fertilis fruitful, akin to ferre to bear1; see -ile
1425–75; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin fertilis fruitful, akin to ferre to bear1; see -ile
Related forms
fer·tile·ly, adverb
fer·tile·ness, noun
half-fer·tile, adjective
half-fer·tile·ly, adverb
half-fer·tile·ness, noun
EXPANDnon·fer·tile, adjective
o·ver·fer·tile, adjective
pre·fer·tile, adjective
un·fer·tile, adjective
COLLAPSEAntonyms
1–3. sterile, barren.
1–3. sterile, barren.
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Word Origin & History
fertile
mid-15c., from L. fertilis "bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive," from ferre "to bear" (see infer). Fertile Crescent (1914) was coined by U.S. archaeologist James H. Breasted (1865-1935).
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Medical Dictionary
fertile fer·tile (fûr'tl)
adj.
Capable of conceiving and bearing young.
Fertilized. Used of an ovum.
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Science Dictionary
fertile  (fûr'tl) Pronunciation Key
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