Fertile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Biology Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
  • adj. Biology Capable of growing and developing; able to mature: a fertile egg.
  • adj. Botany Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.
  • adj. Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
  • adj. Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth: fertile soil.
  • adj. Highly or continuously productive; prolific: a fertile imagination; a fertile source of new ideas.
  • adj. Physics Capable of producing fissionable material: fertile thorium 232.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. capable of growing abundant crops; productive
  • adj. capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
  • adj. capable of developing past the egg stage
  • adj. productive or prolific
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive
  • adj.
  • adj. Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing.
  • adj. Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
  • adj. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. bearing in abundance especially offspring
  • adj. intellectually productive
  • adj. marked by great fruitfulness
  • adj. capable of reproducing
  • Equivalent
    fruitful    productive    rank    fecund    fertilizable    impregnable    conceptive   
    Antonym
    infertile   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    fruitful    prolific    fecund    productive    rich    inventive    fruit-bearing    plenteous    ample   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Argyll    Kyle    Marseille    Mikhail    Myrtle    Niall    Nile    Pyle    Theil    Weil   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fruitful    wooded    populous    mountainous    pleasant    extensive    sunny    verdant    luxuriant    picturesque