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Definitions for Fertile

[1] bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific: fertile soil.
[2] bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
[3] abundantly productive: a fertile imagination.
[4] producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in ): a land fertile of wheat.
[5] conducive to productiveness: fertile showers.
[6] Biology . fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated. capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
[7] Botany . capable of producing sexual reproductive structures. capable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen. having spore-bearing organs, as a frond.
[8] Physics . (of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons: Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides. Compare fissile(def 2) .
[9] produced in abundance.
[10] capable of producing offspring
[11] (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
[12] biology capable of undergoing growth and development fertile seeds ; fertile eggs (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
[13] producing many offspring; prolific
[14] highly productive; rich; abundant a fertile brain
[15] physics (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
[16] conducive to productiveness fertile rain

Words related to Fertile

productive, lush, fruitful, rich, abundant, arable, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, fecund, flowering, luxuriant, plentiful, pregnant, producing, prolific, rank, teeming, virile

Words nearby Fertile

ferry, ferry bridge, ferryboat, ferryman, fertigate, fertile, fertile crescent, fertile period, fertility, fertility cult, fertility drug

Origin of Fertile

1425–75; late Middle English (< Middle French ) < Latin fertilis fruitful, akin to ferre to bear1; see -ile

Other words from Fertile

fer·tile·ly , adverb
fer·tile·ness , noun
half-fer·tile , adjective
half-fer·tile·ly , adverb
half-fer·tile·ness , noun
non·fer·tile , adjective
o·ver·fer·tile , adjective
pre·fer·tile , adjective
un·fer·tile , adjective
fertility noun

Word origin for Fertile

C15: from Latin fertilis , from ferre to bear

Synonyms for Fertile

abundant, arable, fruitful, lush, productive, rich, bearing, black, bountiful, breeding, breedy, bringing forth, childing, fecund, feracious, flowering, flowing with milk and honey, generative, gravid, hebetic, loamy, luxuriant, plenteous, plentiful, pregnant, procreant, producing, proliferant, prolific, puberal, pubescent, rank, spawning, teeming, uberous, vegetative, virile, with child, yielding