Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
- adjective Capable of growing and developing; able to mature.
- adjective Botany Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.
- adjective Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
- adjective Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth.
- adjective Highly or continuously productive; prolific.
- adjective Physics Capable of producing fissionable material.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or producing abundantly, as of vegetable growth, and sometimes of offspring; productive; fruitful: with of or in before the thing produced: as,fertile soil; a fertile breed of animals; a land fertile of wheat, or fertile in soldiers as well as supplies.
- Productive mentally; fruitful in intellectual activity; inventive; ingenious: as, a fertile brain or imagination; a mind fertile in resources.
- In bot.:
- Fruiting, or capable of producing fruit; having a perfect pistil: as, a fertile flower.
- Capable of fertilizing, as an anther with well-developed pollen.
- Causing production; fertilizing; promoting fecundity: as, fertile showers; fertile thoughts; a fertile suggestion.
- In bee-keeping, in a fertilized state; pregnant. See the extract.
- Synonyms Productive, etc. See
fruitful .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive
- adjective Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing.
- adjective Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
- adjective produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of land, etc.
capable ofgrowing abundant crops ;productive - adjective biology capable of
reproducing ;fecund ,fruitful - adjective biology capable of
developing past theegg stage - adjective of an imagination, etc.
productive orprolific
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective bearing in abundance especially offspring
- adjective intellectually productive
- adjective marked by great fruitfulness
- adjective capable of reproducing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out.
David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out.
David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out.
David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls Jason Linkins 2010
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Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out.
David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls Jason Linkins 2010
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"But by rotating pineapple and Brachiaria grasses, we have increased its fertility so much that it allows us to have these grasses only seen in fertile lands."
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Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out.
David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Long term opportunities are sewn in fertile ground through the opposition of the public to righteous men.
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The bat on the Bacardi symbol is there because the soil where the sugar cane grows is fertile from the excessive guano (bat droppings.)
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Old Father Nile, after emerging from this Lake, travels 2,000 miles down the valley, through the Sudan into Egypt, till he empties his waters incomparably rich in fertile ingredients into the Mediterranean.
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She went with John Pringle after posts and helped him fence certain fertile slopes and hollows for winter grazing.
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