fertile

4 definitions found

fertile - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fertile \Fer"tile\ (? or ?; 277), a. [L. fertilis, fr. ferre to
     bear, produce: cf. F. fertile. See Bear to support.]
     1. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able
        to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich;
        inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or
        imagination.
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              Though he in a fertile climate dwell. --Shak.
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     2. (Bot.)
        (a) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile
            flowers.
        (b) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
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     3. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
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              Henceforth, my early care . . .
              Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease
              Of thy full branches.                 --Milton.
  
     Syn: Fertile, Fruitful.
  
     Usage: Fertile implies the inherent power of production;
            fruitful, the act. The prairies of the West are
            fertile by nature, and are turned by cultivation into
            fruitful fields. The same distinction prevails when
            these words are used figuratively. A man of fertile
            genius has by nature great readiness of invention; one
            whose mind is fruitful has resources of thought and a
            readiness of application which enable him to think and
            act effectively.
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fertile - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fertile
      adj 1: capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile,
             unfertile]
      2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
         imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific]
      3: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are
         extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific,
         fertile]
      4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat
         land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat,
         fertile, productive, rich]

fertile - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Fertile, IA (city, FIPS 27390)
    Location: 43.26487 N, 93.42258 W
    Population (1990): 382 (161 housing units)
    Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 50434
  Fertile, MN (city, FIPS 20978)
    Location: 47.53207 N, 96.29134 W
    Population (1990): 853 (421 housing units)
    Area: 4.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 56540

fertile - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  90 Moby Thesaurus words for "fertile":
     abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ample, aplenty,
     blooming, bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, bursting, bursting out,
     conceptive, conceptual, copious, creative, diffuse, effuse,
     epidemic, esemplastic, exhaustless, extravagant, exuberant, fat,
     fecund, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, fructuous, fruitful,
     full, galore, generative, generous, germinal, ideational, ideative,
     imaginative, in plenty, in quantity, inexhaustible, ingenious,
     inspired, inventive, lavish, liberal, lush, luxuriant, many,
     maximal, much, notional, numerous, opulent, original, originative,
     overflowing, plenitudinous, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, pregnant,
     prevailing, prevalent, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive,
     proliferous, prolific, rampant, replete, rich, rife, riotous,
     running over, seminal, shaping, superabundant, swarming, teeming,
     thriving, uberous, visioned, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished,
     well-provided, well-stocked, wholesale