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Fertile

see synonyms of fertile

Adjective

1. fertile

capable of reproducing

2. fecund, fertile, prolific

intellectually productive

Example Sentences:
'a prolific writer'
'a fecund imagination'

3. fertile, prolific

bearing in abundance especially offspring

Example Sentences:
'flying foxes are extremely prolific'
'a prolific pear tree'

4. fat, fertile, productive, rich

marked by great fruitfulness

Example Sentences:
'fertile farmland'
'a fat land'
'a productive vineyard'
'rich soil'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Fertile

see synonyms of fertile
adjective
1. 
capable of producing offspring
2. 
a. 
(of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants
b. 
(of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
3. biology
a. 
capable of undergoing growth and development
fertile seeds
fertile eggs
b. 
(of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
4. 
producing many offspring; prolific
5. 
highly productive; rich; abundant
a fertile brain
6. physics
(of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
7. 
conducive to productiveness
fertile rain

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Fertile

see synonyms of fertile
adjective
1. 
producing abundantly; rich in resources or invention; fruitful; prolific
2. 
causing or helping fertility
the sun's fertile warmth
3. 
able to produce young, seeds, fruit, pollen, spores, etc.
4. 
capable of development into a new individual; fertilized
fertile eggs

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Fertile

see synonyms of fertile
adj.
1. Biology
a. Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
b. Capable of growing and developing; able to mature: a fertile egg.
2. Botany Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.
3. Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
4. Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth: fertile soil.
5. Highly or continuously productive; prolific: a fertile imagination; a fertile source of new ideas.
6. Physics Capable of producing fissionable material: fertile thorium 232.

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