fertility - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'fertility' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fertility

[ n.]

- The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination.

Meaning of 'fertility' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fertility

[ n]

Meaning (1):
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

Example in sentence:

he praised the richness of the soil;
weeds lovely in their rankness

Nearby Words:

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

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Total fertility rate (TFR)
Total fertility rate (TFR) is the average number of children born alive to any woman, assuming that she conforms to current fertility rates.
Fertility
Fertility is the level of reproduction in a society.

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