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.