Definition of fertile | Collins English Dictionary

fertile (ˈfɜːtaɪl)

capable of producing offspring
1. (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants
2. (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
biology
1. capable of undergoing growth and development ⇒ fertile seeds fertile eggs
2. (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
producing many offspring; prolific
highly productive; rich; abundant ⇒ a fertile brain
physics (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
conducive to productiveness ⇒ fertile rain

ˈfertilely adverb ˈfertileness noun

C15: from Latin fertilis , from ferre to bear

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= productive, rich, flowering, lush, fat, yielding, prolific, abundant, plentiful, fruitful, teeming, luxuriant, generative, fecund, fruit-bearing flowing with milk and honey plenteous,

= able to conceive able to reproduce able to have children able to have babies able to have young potent,

British English: fertile Land or soil that is fertile is able to support a large number of strong healthy plants.ˈfɜːtaɪl ADJECTIVE
Spanish: fértil adj
French: fertile adj
German: fruchtbar adj
Chinese: 肥沃的 adj
Arabic: خَصِب adj
Portuguese: fértil adj
Russian: плодородный adj плодородная
Croatian: plodan adj plodna
Czech: plodný adj
Danish: frugtbar adj
Dutch: vruchtbaar adj
Finnish: hedelmällinen adj
Greek: γόνιμος adj γόνιμη
Italian: fertile adj
Japanese: 繁殖力のある no_posp
Korean: 비옥한 adj
Norwegian: fruktbar adj
Polish: urodzajny adj urodzajna
Brazilian Portuguese: fértil adj
European Spanish: fértil adj
Swedish: fertil adj fertilt
Thai: ซึ่งมีดินอุดมสมบูรณ์ adj
Turkish: verimli adj
Vietnamese: màu mỡ adj

Tammy pointed to the body, which lay face down in the middle of a particularly fertile patch of fungi.
Clive Barker, COLDHEART CANYON (2001)
A matched control group of fertile women was also recruited.
New Scientist (2004)
Order of the Phoenix allows the reader to savour Rowling's remarkably fertile imagination.
Ottawa Sun (2003)
Brookeborough broadcast a special "homage" from London, describing Northern Ireland thus: "A small but fertile country.
Belfast Telegraph (2003)
Not only in the world outside but by spiritual ecology, by gardening within your mind, and making the wasteland within green and fertile.
Marian Green, WILD WITCHCRAFT: A Guide to Natural, Herbal and Earth Magic (2002)