Preposition: of

• soil: The law of fertility of the soil has been termed the Wheel of Life.

Converse of object

• restore: The procedure may have restored the fertility of a 34 year old woman in China.

• decline: This was effected largely through declining fertility, particularly due to a rising age at marriage and an extraordinary decline in marriage rates.

• decrease: Methotrexate affects spermatogenesis and oogenesis during the period of its administration which may result in decreased fertility.

Adjective modifier

• impaired: Changes such as impaired fertility or poor egg quality can also be seen.

• reduced: To be aware of the problem of reduced soil fertility from salt build-up in heavily irrigated land.

• marital: The burden of his argument is that there were small but significant variations in marital fertility prior to the fertility decline of the 1880s.

• cumulative: Figure 1.15 shows the completed family size ( or cumulative cohort fertility ) by age for women born in selected years.

• male: Q 9. 21 How can we assess male fertility?

• female: Image: Shows one of Helen Story's ' Death Dresses ' , which explore the end of female fertility.

Modifies a noun

• rite: Perhaps less of an ancient fertility rite than previously believed.

• goddess: By implication, they were connected with the cult of a female fertility goddess whose worship was being forcefully suppressed.

• clinic: Ten fertility clinics in the UK are licensed to test embryos.

• treatment: How many people have fertility treatment in the UK?

• cult: This is the heart of the fertility cult concept.

• ritual: He then postulated a highly complex fertility ritual that was to have been performed in these sanctuaries.

Noun used with modifier

• soil: For soils with higher soil fertility levels no potash required.

• pagan: J. L. Weston thought it part of a pagan fertility rite, involving a story similar to that of Adonis.

• K: Thus maintenance of top soil K fertility remains the key principle for potato manuring.

• herd: Assess and report ( orally and in writing ) on herd fertility management.