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Meaning of 'fertile' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fertile [ a.]
- Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
- Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
- Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
- produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.

Meaning of 'fertile' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fertile [ s]
Meaning (1):
- marked by great fruitfulness
Example in sentence:
  • a fat land;
  • a productive vineyard;
  • fertile farmland;
  • rich soil
Meaning (2):
- intellectually productive
Example in sentence:
  • a fecund imagination;
  • a prolific writer
Meaning (3):
- bearing in abundance especially offspring
Example in sentence:
  • a prolific pear tree;
  • flying foxes are extremely prolific

Nearby Words:

fer fer-de-lance feracious feracity ferae ferae naturae feral ferde ferding ferdness

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