fertilitynoun [ U ]
uk/fəˈtɪl.ə.ti/us/fɚˈtɪl.ə.t̬i/fertility noun [ U ] (PEOPLE/ANIMALS/PLANTS)
(of animals and plants) the quality of being able to produce young or fruit:
a fertility symbol
declining fertility rates
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- He runs a fertility clinic.
- She was prescribed fertility drugs to stimulate her ovaries.
- She's a leading fertility expert.
- She began fertility treatment at the clinic three years ago.
- It is thought that environmental toxins are destroying fertility.
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Animal reproduction
- asexual
- asexual reproduction
- bird
- breed
- egg
- embryo
- embryonic
- estrogen
- fertilize
- incubate
- infertile
- inseminate
- lamb
- mate
- ova
- reproduction
- seminal
- spawning ground
- spermatozoon
- the birds and the bees idiom
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fertility noun [ U ] (LAND)
(of land) the quality of producing a large number of good quality crops:
the fertility of the soil
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Fertile or infertile land
- barren
- bread basket
- cultivable
- denude
- exuberant
- fallow
- fertile
- granary
- hospitable
- hostile
- infertile
- luscious
- lush
- luxuriant
- marginal land
- overgrown
- rank
- rich
- sterile
- verdant
fertility noun [ U ] (IMAGINATION)
literary (of the mind or imagination) the quality of producing a lot of unusual and interesting ideas
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Imagining and conceiving
- a reach of the imagination idiom
- assume
- blue-sky
- conceivable
- conceive
- conceptualize
- dream
- feel
- fertile
- foundation
- grant
- look on/upon sb/sth as sth
- mind
- picture
- presumption
- put
- put yourself in sb's place/position/shoes idiom
- reckon
- riot
- suspicion
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