Fertility meaning

fər-tĭl'ĭ-tē
(countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
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The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
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The birthrate of a population.
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(uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.

Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.

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The average number of births per woman within a population.
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The condition, quality, or degree of being fertile.
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The birthrate of a population.
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The quality, state, or degree of being fertile; fecundity.
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The birthrate of a given population.
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Origin of fertility

From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitas.

Sentence Examples

  • The fertility of its territory was also praised by ancient authors.

  • In modern economics "fertility" has no very definite meaning.

  • The fertility of the land shall be such as was long ago predicted in Amos ix.

  • The clay soils of England, Agricul- the latent fertility of which was to be brought into 187 since Y g I sis.

  • part of the state, the soil is largely a decomposition of the underlying rocks, and its fertility varies according to their composition; there is considerable limestone in the E.

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