Infertile
[ɪn'fɜːtaɪl] or [ɪn'fɝtl]
Definition
(a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.
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Definition
adj. not productive: barren.—n. Infertil′ity.
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Examples
- We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With trimorphic species six unions are legitimate, or fully fertile, and twelve are illegitimate, or more or less infertile. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
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