infertileadjective
uk/ɪnˈfɜː.taɪl/us/ɪnˈfɝː.t̬əl/An infertile person, animal, or plant cannot have babies, produce young, or produce new plants:
It has been estimated that one in eight couples is infertile.
Infertile land or soil is not good enough for plants or crops to grow well there:
Poor farmers have little choice but to try to grow food in this infertile soil.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- egg
- embryo
- embryology
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- fetus
- incubate
- inseminate
- lamb
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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Fertile or infertile land
infertility
noun [ U ] uk/ˌɪn.fəˈtɪl.ə.ti/us/ˌɪn.fɚˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/
male/female infertility