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Definitions for: Fertile
[adj] capable of reproducing
[adj] marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
[adj] bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
[adj] intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
Webster (1913) Definition: Fer"tile (? or ?; 277), a. [L. fertilis, fr. ferr? to
bear, produce: cf. F. fertile. See Bear to support.]
1. Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able
to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich;
inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or
imagination.
Though he in a fertile climate dwell. --Shak.
2. (Bot.)
(a) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile
flowers.
(b) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
3. produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and
the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches.
--Milton.
Syn: Fertile, Fruitful.
Usage: Fertile implies the inherent power of production;
fruitful, the act. The prairies of the West are
fertile by nature, and are turned by cultivation into
fruitful fields. The same distinction prevails when
these words are used figuratively. A man of fertile
genius has by nature great readiness of invention; one
whose mind is fruitful has resources of thought and a
readiness of application which enable him to think and
act effectively.
Synonyms: fat, fecund, fertilised, fertilizable, fertilized, impregnated, inseminated, prolific, rank, rich
Antonyms: infertile, unfertile
See Also: conceptive, fruitful, potent, productive, strong
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