Word for the day: fertile

fertile |ˈfəː.tʌɪl|                                                               *fértil (en Español)

 
DEFINITION

adjective
1 (of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops: the fertile coastal plain.• producing many new and inventive ideas: her fertile imagination.• (of a situation) encouraging a particular activity or feeling: conditions at the time provided fertile ground for revolutionary movements.2 (of a person, animal, or plant) able to conceive young or produce seed.• (of a seed or egg) capable of becoming a new individual.• Physics (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons.

ORIGIN late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’.

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