fertile
/ˈfɝːtəl/ adjective C1- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
- Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful. · Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
- 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.
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We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us.
“Yes, they seem more fertile than the rest.”
But in vain did he rack his imagination; fertile as it was, he could not devise any plan for reaching the island without companionship.
These displaced agricultural workers hoped to find fertile valleys and abundant employment, but they often encountered severe economic hardship upon arrival.
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