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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fer•tile /ˈfɜrtəl/USA pronunciation adj. - Agriculturebearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation abundantly; productive:fertile Illinois soil.
- Developmental Biologybearing or capable of bearing offspring.
- abundantly productive;
imaginative;
creative:[usually: before a noun]a fertile imagination.
fer•til•i•ty /fɚˈtɪlɪti/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]See -fer-. fertile is an adjective, fertilizer and fertilization are nouns, fertilize is a verb:Many crops were grown on the fertile land. The farmer spread fertilizer on the land. Fertilization was necessary before planting. The farmer fertilized the land with chemicals. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fer•tile (fûr′tl or, esp. Brit., -tīl),USA pronunciation adj. - Agriculturebearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly;
prolific:fertile soil. - Developmental Biologybearing or capable of bearing offspring.
- abundantly productive:a fertile imagination.
- producing an abundance (usually fol. by of or in):a land fertile of wheat.
- conducive to productiveness:fertile showers.
- Developmental Biology[Biol.]
- fertilized, as an egg or ovum;
fecundated. - capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
- [Bot.]
- Botanycapable of producing sexual reproductive structures.
- Botanycapable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen.
- Botanyhaving spore-bearing organs, as a frond.
- Physics(of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons:Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.Cf. fissile (def. 2).
- produced in abundance.
- Latin fertilis fruitful, akin to ferre to bear1; see -ile
- Middle French)
- late Middle English (1425–75
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged –3. fecund, teeming. See productive.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged –3. sterile, barren.
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