fertile

Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɜːtaɪl/, /ˈfɜːtəl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝːtəl/, /ˈfɝːtaɪl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈfɝːtaɪl/

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fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)

1. Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
2. (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:productive

3. (biology)
   1. Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.

      Synonym: (archaic) childing

      Antonyms: barren, infertile, sterile

      Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.

   2. Capable of developing past the egg stage.
4. (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.

   There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.

• fertilisation, fertilization
• fertilise, fertilize
• fertiliser, fertilizer
• fertility, fertileness
• subfertile

• “fertile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “fertile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “fertile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• firelet

From Latin fertilem.

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fertile (plural fertiles)

1. fertile

• Croissant fertile

• “fertile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• flétrie
• flirtée

From Latin fertilem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛr.ti.le/
• Rhymes: -ɛrtile
• Hyphenation: fèr‧ti‧le

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fertile (plural fertili)

1. fertile

   Antonym: infertile

• fertilizzare
• fertilmente

• fertilità

• fecondo

• fertile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

fertile

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of fertilis