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fertile
/ˈfɝːtəl/
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What does fertile mean?
adjective
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
More meanings (4)
adjective
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
proper noun
- A city and township in Iowa.
- A city in Minnesota.
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The fertile soil of the valleys produces a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, including citrus, sugarcane, watermelons, bananas, yams, and beans.
Where fertile lands are very wet one half the year and very dry the other, there can be no forests at all.
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The alluvial plains on the side appeared fertile, and it is supposed that they are well adapted to the growth of corn.
On the other hand the sporangia of these plants were usually borne on special fertile fronds, a mark of rather high differentiation.
Successful invaders always appropriate to their own use the fertile lowlands and the fruitful portions of the country of their helpless foes.