Definition: 1. Capable of reproducing. 2. Intellectually productive. 3. Bearing in abundance especially offspring. 4. Marked by great fruitfulness.
Use 'fertile' in a sentence:
1. A good class is a fertile soil in which the student grows.
2. Once the humus layer disappears, nutrients cannot be recycled and leach from the soil, converting soil from fertile to infertile and making it suitable only for savanna vegetation.
3. Popular literary satires on marriage had already landed on fertile ground in a multiethnic population that embodied a wide range of marital beliefs and practices.
4. Few people are as fertile as in the past.
5. The Middle East is fertile ground for business education.
6. We have the most fertile soil in Europe.
7. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his long-standing messages about business ethics.
8. Improving Women's Status and Stabilizing the Low fertile Level.
9. To their delight, they feel that this makes the soil in their fields richer in minerals and so more fertile.
10. Seattle is fertile ground for small businesses.
11. The operation cannot be reversed to make her fertile again.
12. Women are buying items to make themselves feel more attractive-coinciding with the time of ovulation when they are most fertile, typically around 14 days before the start of a period.
13. The land here is rich and fertile.
14. Where the tiller is tireless the land is fertile.
15. Most roses like a sunny position in a fairly fertile soil.
16. For centuries, the annual floods of the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, for example, have brought fertile silts and water to the inhabitants of their lower valleys.
17. To the north lie the flat and fertile farmlands of the Solway plain.
18. Horton looked out over a panorama of fertile valleys and gentle hills.
19. To the north lie the flat and fertile farmlands of Nebraska.
20. Anything grows in this fertile ground.
21. The soil here is quite fertile.
22. Both places had vast areas of fertile farmland, no shortage of agricultural land.
23. The Valley of Vinales is a lush and fertile valley and one of Cuba's finest beauty spots.
24. Burning the forest just once can leave behind enough black carbon to keep the soil fertile for thousands of years.
25. Because of this increased concentration, regrowth of plants is minimal, leading to increased erosion, which leads to a decrease in the fertile topsoil, leading to even less regrowth.
26. The Canadian said, "I am a father and my son will be a farmer so I want the soil in Canada to be forever fertile." The genie said the magic words and the wish came true.
27. Plants grow well in fertile soil.
28. Forests are eating away the fertile farmland worldwide.
29. Above them you could see green and fertile pastures, till at last the stony boulders reached the bare, steep cliffs.
30. Farmers worked the fertile valleys.
31. Land that was once at the bottom of the sea now lies around the town in wide, fertile fields; where crabs once crawled, donkeys pick their way.
32. In our always-connected world, boredom may be a hard-to-define state, but it is a fertile one.
33. Bruno Glaser, a soil scientist of the University of Bayreuth, has studied unexpected patches of fertile soils in the central Amazon.
34. After discussing a variety of subjects they began to talk about heroes, a topic that tends to be more fertile than edifying1.
35. Some fish are very fertile, they lay thousands of eggs.
36. Aeons ago, there were deserts where there is now fertile land.
37. In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.
38. The soil here is extremely fertile.
39. I saw a dark brown fertile field in which a plough was cutting large furrows.
40. It is fertile and productive.
41. According to this definition, one species is distinguished from another by the possibility of matings between individuals from each species to produce fertile offspring.
42. Afterwards during the season of subsidence, the water would subside, or recede, revealing a new layer of fertile black silt and allowing for the planting of various crops.
43. This leaves fertile soil unprotected and prone to erosion.
44. The land is not fertile enough to repay cultivation.
45. They used force to banish the natives from the more fertile land.
46. Some regions of the world are well supplied with coal and minerals, and have a fertile soil and a favourable climate; other regions possess none of them.
47. We have the most fertile soil in the Midwest.
48. The region at the time was fertile ground for revolutionary movements.
49. A chess player must have a fertile imagination and rich sense of fantasy.
50. What was formerly a sandbank has now become fertile paddy fields.
51. The formerly [ once] barren land has been changed into stretches of fertile fields.
52. The United States is a land rich in mineral resources and fertile farm soil, together with a moderate climate.
53. For once, the artist's fertile imagination failed him.
54. The treatment has been tested on healthy fertile women under the age of 35.
