fertile
About 6.37 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- adjective Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- adjective Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- adjective Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- adjective Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- adjective Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
Similar words
fruitful productive fertilizable prolific fecund conceptive fat rank rich fertilised
Often followed by
soil and land ground in crescent lands plains valley
Word family
fertilely fertileness fertilenesses
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