fertile.
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Meaning & usage
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).
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