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fertile

adj
/ˈfɜːtaɪl/UK/ˈfɝːtəl/US/ˈfɝːtaɪl/CA

Etymology

From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).

  1. derived from fertilis
  2. derived from fertile
  3. derived from fertile

Definitions

  1. Of land, etc.

    Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

  2. Of one's imagination, etc.

    Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.

  3. Capable of reproducing

    Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.

    • Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Capable of developing past the egg stage.

    2. Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a…

      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.

    3. A city and township in Iowa.

    4. A city in Minnesota.

The neighborhood

Derived

cross-fertile, equifertile, fertile as a turtle, Fertile Belt, Fertile Crescent, fertilely, Fertile Valley, fertiloscope, fertiloscopy, hyperfertile, hypofertile, interfertile, nonfertile, overfertile, postfertile, prefertile, self-fertile, semifertile, superfertile, unfertile

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fertile. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fertile. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at fertile

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA