Fertile (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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.
    • fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated.
    • capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
  7. 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.
  8. (of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons: Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.
  9. produced in abundance.
adjective
  1. capable of producing offspring
    • (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants
    • (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
  3. biology
    • capable of undergoing growth and development
    • (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
  4. producing many offspring; prolific
  5. highly productive; rich; abundant
  6. (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
  7. conducive to productiveness
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