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Fertile

//ˈfɜːtaɪl// adj, name

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
  2. 2
    Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific. figuratively
  3. 3
    Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.

    "Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile."

  4. 4
    Capable of developing past the egg stage.
  5. 5
    Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.

    "There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of reproducing wordnet
  2. 2
    marked by great fruitfulness wordnet
  3. 3
    bearing in abundance especially offspring wordnet
  4. 4
    intellectually productive wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A city and township in Iowa.
  2. 2
    A city in Minnesota.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

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