Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Infertile.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not fertile; infertile; barren.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
fertile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of reproducing
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Examples
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Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.
IMAGINE: Lennon's Response to McCartney's 'Friendship First' Concert in Israel 2008
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Diseases that could leave them unfertile later in life when they want to have a baby.
Dueling Teen Pregnancy Tales: Jamie Lynn and Gloucester High - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Usually, members of the ethnic majority are forced on to barren and unfertile soils, where they must also try to survive under impoverished and overcrowded conditions.
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Van Wyk suggests that reduced competition on unfertile substrata allowed this relictual flora to persist.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know what are the statistics of women becoming unfertile after taking birth control.
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If so, then US has been an unfertile place for terrorism after 9/11.
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This song is recently composed, it means that the mission of the working class is to see the land and its resources being in the hands of the people, not among individuals monopolizing it and living people with small useless pieces of dry unfertile lands.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want to know what are the statistics of women becoming unfertile after taking birth control.
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The same logic can be used against unfertile couples, and those who use birth control.
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Who actually did know things, knew how to coax life from unfertile fields and balky cows.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2006
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