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Fertile
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1. Land or soil that is fertile is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy plants. ...fertile soil. ...the rolling fertile countryside of East Cork. = rich ADJ • fertility He was able to bring large sterile acreages back to fertility. N-UNCOUNT 2. A fertile mind or imagination is able to produce a lot of good, original ideas. ...a product of Flynn’s fertile imagination... ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. A situation or environment that is fertile in relation to a particular activity or feeling encourages the activity or feeling. ...a fertile breeding ground for this kind of violent racism. ADJ: ADJ n 4. A person or animal that is fertile is able to reproduce and have babies or young. The operation cannot be reversed to make her fertile again. ? infertile, sterile ADJ • fertility Doctors will tell you that pregnancy is the only sure test for fertility. ? infertility, sterility N-UNCOUNT
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adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin fertilis, from ferre to carry, bear — more at bear Date: 15th century 1. a. producing or bearing fruit in great quantities ; productive b. characterized by great resourcefulness of thought or imagination ; inventive a ~ mind c. obsolete plentiful 2. a. (1) capable of sustaining abundant plant growth ~ soil (2) affording abundant possibilities for growth or development damp bathrooms are ~ ground for fungi —Consumer Reports a ~ area for research b. capable of growing or developing a ~ egg c. (1) capable of producing fruit (2) of an anther containing pollen (3) developing spores or spore-bearing organs d. capable of breeding or reproducing 3. capable of being converted into fissionable material ~ uranium 238 • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun Synonyms: ~, fecund, fruitful, prolific mean producing or capable of producing offspring or fruit. ~ implies the power to reproduce in kind or to assist in reproduction and growth ~ soil; applied figuratively, it suggests readiness of invention and development a ~ imagination. fecund emphasizes abundance or rapidity in bearing fruit or offspring a fecund herd. fruitful adds to ~ and fecund the implication of desirable or useful results fruitful research. prolific stresses rapidity of spreading or multiplying by or as if by natural reproduction a prolific writer. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. 1 a (of soil) producing abundant vegetation or crops. b fruitful. 2 a (of a seed, egg, etc.) capable of becoming a new individual. b (of animals and plants) able to conceive young or produce fruit. 3 (of the mind) inventive. 4 (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons. Phrases and idioms Fertile Crescent the fertile region extending in a crescent shape from the E. Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Derivatives fertility n. Etymology: ME f. F f. L fertilis ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. плодородный, богатый, изобильный fertile pastures —- богатые (тучные) пастбища a race fertile in genuis —- народ, богатый талантами land fertile in natural resources —- земля, изобилующая полезными ископаемыми fertile imagination —- богатое воображение 2. всхожий (о семенах) плодоносящий 3. способствующий плодородию, плодоношению, развитию и т. п. fertile climate —- благоприятный (благодатный) климат a fertile area for research —- многообещающая область научных исследований 4. способный к размножению fertile eggs —- яйца, из которых выводятся цыплята the young of a horse and a donkey is not fertile —- гибрид лошади и осла бесплоден 5. плодовитый he is always fertile in new plans —- у него постоянно рождаются новые планы a fertile mind —- изобретательный ум 6. физ. делящийся fertile uranium —- делящийся изотоп урана ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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material ядерное топливное сырье FERTILE adj. 1) плодородный; изобильный (часто fertile in, fertile of) fertile in resources - изобилующий природными богатствами 2) плодовитый, насыщенный fertile in ideas - богатый мыслями 3) всхожий (о семенах); плодоносящий 4) phys. - fertile material Syn: see viable ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 fertile land or soil produces good crops (the fertile plains of western Canada) 2 able to produce babies, young animals, or new plants (Most men remain fertile into old age.) (- opposite infertile) 3 fertile imagination/mind/brain often humorous an imagination etc that is able to think of interesting and unusual ideas 4 fertile ground a situation where new ideas, political groups etc can easily develop and succeed (Poor areas of East London became fertile ground for Mosley's fascist movement.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1436, from L. fertilis "bearing in abundance, fruitful, productive," from ferre "to bear." Fertilize is 1648; its biological sense of "unite with an egg cell" is first recorded 1859. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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