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infertile, a.|ɪnˈfɜːtɪl, -taɪl|
Also 6 -ille, 7 -il.
[a. F. infertile (1488 in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. infertilis, f. in- (in-3) + fertilis fertile.]
Not fertile; unfruitful, unproductive, barren, sterile.
1597A.M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. *iv b, To sowe the same in an infertille grownde. 1611Speed Theat. Gt. Brit. xliii. (1614) 85/1 The soile..being so full of infertile places, which the Northern Englishmen call Moores. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. iii. xi. 181 A defect..in one man, could render only one woman infertile. 1868Darwin Plants & Anim. (1875) II. 130 Animals and plants, when removed from their natural conditions, are often rendered in some degree infertile or completely barren. 1869Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 54 The most infertile of the four Continents.
Hence inˈfertilely adv., in an infertile manner (Craig, 1847); inˈfertileness (Bailey vol. II, 1727) = next. |