Fertile

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
  • adjective. Capable of growing and developing; able to mature.
  • adjective. Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.
  • adjective. Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
  • adjective. Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth.
  • adjective. Highly or continuously productive; prolific.
  • adjective. Capable of producing fissionable material.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing.
  • adjective. Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
  • adjective. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. capable of growing abundant crops; productive
  • adjective. capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
  • adjective. capable of developing past the egg stage
  • adjective. productive or prolific
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. bearing in abundance especially offspring
  • adjective. intellectually productive
  • adjective. marked by great fruitfulness
  • adjective. capable of reproducing
  • Word Usage
    "Flawed like all of us, he is a full human being, rich and fertile from the inside out."
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    infertile  
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    Argyll  Kyle  Marseille  Mikhail  Myrtle  
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