- fer´tile|ly
- fer|tile «FUR tuhl», adjective.1. able to produce seeds, fruit, young, etc.: »
a fertile animal or plant.
2. able to develop into a new individual; fertilized: »Chicks hatch from fertile eggs.
3. a) able to produce much; producing crops easily; rich in things that aid growth and development: »Fertile soil yields good crops.
b) producing many offspring.4. Botany. a) fruiting or capable of producing fruit; having a perfect pistil: »a fertile flower.
b) capable of fertilizing, as an anther with well-developed pollen. c) producing organs that bear spores, as a fern.5. Physics. not fissionable, but capable of becoming fissionable through the action of bombarding neutrons in a reactor.6. Figurative. producing ideas; creative: »Keats had a fertile imagination. Einstein had a fertile mind.
7. Figurative. producing abundance (in or of): »A mind fertile in schemes. A reforming age is always fertile of imposters (Macaulay).
8. promoting fertility or productivity: »fertile showers.
9. Obsolete. abundant.╂[< Old French fertil, learned borrowing from Latin fertilis < ferre to bear]–fer´tile|ly, adverb.–fer´tile|ness, noun.Synonym Study 1, 6 Fertile, productive mean able to produce much. Fertile emphasizes the power of producing and applies to things in which seeds or ideas can take root and grow: »The seed fell on fertile ground. He has a fertile imagination.
Productive suggests bringing forth in abundance: »Those fruit trees are very productive. He is a productive writer.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
