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fer⋅tile

  [fur-tl or, especially Brit., -tahyl]
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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 fol. by of or in): a land fertile of wheat.
5. conducive 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. produced in abundance.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME (< MF) < L fertilis fruitful, akin to ferre to bear 1 ; see -ile

Related forms:
fer⋅tile⋅ly, adverb
fer⋅tile⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1–3. fecund, teeming. See productive.

Antonyms:
1–3. sterile, barren.
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Word Origin & History

fertile 
1436, from L. fertilis "bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive," from ferre "to bear" (see infer). Fertilize is 1648; its biological sense of "unite with an egg cell" is first recorded 1859. Fertile Crescent (1914) was coined by U.S. archaeologist James H. Breasted (1865-1935). Fertilizer as a euphemism for "manure" is from 1846.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: fer·tile
Pronunciation: 'f&rt-&l, chiefly Brit 'f&r-"tIl
Function: adjective
1 : capable of growingor developing <fertile egg>
2 : developing spores or spore-bearing organs
3 a : capable of breeding or reproducing b of an estrouscycle : marked by the production of one or more viable eggs
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Medical Dictionary

fertile fer·tile (fûr'tl)
adj.

  1. Capable of conceiving and bearing young.

  2. Fertilized. Used of an ovum.

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fertile   (fûr'tl)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. Capable of producing offspring, seeds, or fruit.

  2. Capable of developing into a complete organism; fertilized.

  3. Capable of supporting plant life; favorable to the growth of crops and plants.


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