| 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 fol. by of or in): a land fertile of wheat. |
| 5. | conducive to productiveness: fertile showers. |
| 6. | Biology.
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| 7. | Botany.
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| 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. | produced in abundance. |
fertile fer·tile (fûr'tl)
adj.
Capable of conceiving and bearing young.
Fertilized. Used of an ovum.