Infertile Definition

ĭn-fûrtl
adjective
Not fertile; not productive; barren.
Webster's New World
Not capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
American Heritage Medicine
Not fertilized.
Webster's New World
Not fertilized and hence incapable of growing and developing.
Infertile duck eggs.
American Heritage Medicine
Not capable of sustaining crops or vegetation.
Infertile land.
American Heritage Medicine
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Origin of Infertile

  • From Middle French infertile, from Late Latin infertilis

    From Wiktionary

Infertile Sentence Examples

  • Passing the high and rugged Blue Ridge, which is infertile except in the intervening valleys of its S.W.

  • These seasons are frequently infertile as well.

  • Cancer patients who are infertile may be able to find financial support to help with the cost of fertility treatments through organizations like Fertile Hope.

  • On the infertile Bagshot Beds the large area of the New Forest remains untilled under its ancient oaks.

  • A Christian Fundamentalist sect takes control of the US and institutes a new social order, in which women who are still fertile are parceled out to the men as 'handmaids', to bear children to be raised by the infertile wives of the rulers.

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ELEILE

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