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