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ALL meanings of fertile

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  • adjective fertile bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific: fertile soil. 1
  • adjective fertile bearing or capable of bearing offspring. 1
  • adjective fertile abundantly productive: a fertile imagination. 1
  • adjective fertile producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in): a land fertile of wheat. 1
  • adjective fertile conducive to productiveness: fertile showers. 1
  • adjective fertile Biology. fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated. capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs. 1
  • adjective fertile Botany. capable of producing sexual reproductive structures. capable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen. having spore-bearing organs, as a frond. 1
  • adjective fertile 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 fissile (def 2). 1
  • adjective fertile produced in abundance. 1
  • adjective fertile person: able to bear children 1
  • adjective fertile soil: producing crops 1
  • adjective fertile imagination: prolific 1
  • noun fertile (of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops. 1
  • adjective fertile Land or soil that is fertile is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy plants. 0
  • adjective fertile A fertile mind or imagination is able to produce a lot of good, original ideas. 0
  • adjective fertile A situation or environment that is fertile in relation to a particular activity or feeling encourages the activity or feeling. 0
  • adjective fertile (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive. 0
  • adjective fertile A person or animal that is fertile is able to reproduce and have babies or young. 0
  • adjective fertile (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful. 0
  • adjective fertile capable of producing offspring 0
  • adjective fertile (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage. 0
  • adjective fertile (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants 0
  • adjective fertile (of an imagination etc) productive or prolific. 0
  • adjective fertile (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock 0
  • adjective fertile capable of undergoing growth and development 0
  • adjective fertile (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits 0
  • adjective fertile producing many offspring; prolific 0
  • adjective fertile highly productive; rich; abundant 0
  • adjective fertile (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor 0
  • adjective fertile conducive to productiveness 0
  • adjective fertile producing abundantly; rich in resources or invention; fruitful; prolific 0
  • adjective fertile causing or helping fertility 0
  • adjective fertile able to produce young, seeds, fruit, pollen, spores, etc. 0
  • adjective fertile capable of development into a new individual; fertilized 0
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