Fertility

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  • noun. The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
  • noun. The birthrate of a population.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being fertile or fruitful; the quality of producing in abundance: fecundity; productiveness: as, the fertility of land, or (more rarely) of a breed of animals, a race of men, or an individual.
  • noun. Prolific invention; abundance of resources; mental affluence: as, the fertility of genius or imagination.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
  • noun. The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
  • noun. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
  • noun. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth
  • Word Usage
    "_ They are thus both encouraged and enabled to increase this surplus produce by a further improvement and better cultivation of the land; and _as the fertility of the land has given birth to the manufacture, so the progress of the manufacture reacts upon the land, and increases still further its fertility_."
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