fertile
IPA: fˈɝtʌɫ
noun
- A city and township in Iowa.
- A city in Minnesota.
adjective
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- (biology)
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
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Examples of "fertile" in Sentences
- The soil is remarkably fertile.
- The soil is alluvial and fertile.
- Fecund is another word for 'fertile, fruitful, productive'.
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