Fertile
[fur-tl or, esp. British, -tahyl] /ˈfɜr tl or, esp. British, -taɪl/
adjective
1.
bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific:
fertile soil.
2.
bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
3.
abundantly productive:
a fertile imagination.
4.
producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in):
a land fertile of wheat.
5.
conducive to productiveness:
fertile showers.
6.
Biology.
7.
Botany.
8.
Physics. (of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons:
Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.
Compare (def 2).
9.
produced in abundance.
/ˈfɜːtaɪl/
adjective
1.
capable of producing offspring
2.
3.
(biology)
4.
producing many offspring; prolific
5.
highly productive; rich; abundant: a fertile brain
6.
(physics) (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
7.
conducive to productiveness: fertile rain
adj.
mid-15c., from Middle French fertil and directly from Latin fertilis “bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive,” from ferre “to bear” (see infer). Fertile Crescent (1914) was coined by U.S. archaeologist James H. Breasted (1865-1935).
fertile fer·tile (fûr’tl)
adj.
fertile
(fûr’tl)
fertility noun
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