Definition of fertile in English:

fertile

adjective ˈfəːtʌɪlˈfərdl

1(of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops.
（土壤，土地）肥沃的，多产的
the fertile coastal plain
Example sentencesExamples
- Malaria has been eradicated and the Hule has become one of the breadbaskets of Israel, acre upon acre of fertile land abundant with fruit and grain and garden crops.
- The population is 55 percent urban, with most people concentrated in the Pacific lowlands because of the fertile land there.
- There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance.
- By using the Catholic Church as his compost heap, Carrera has planted in fertile ground the seeds of a story that has universal implications.
- The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
- We have fertile lands… and you have people sleeping on the pavement, children with no place to live.
- The European soil was more fertile ground than the American for public choice ideas over much of the period under consideration.
- The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete.
- Its a fertile land which needs a lot of irrigation - there are great rivers in Zambia such as the Zambezi.
- Some stress the availability of such abundant natural resources as fertile soils and rich supplies of iron, coal, and oil.
- It seems likely that much of the fertile lands of the Garonne corridor and the coastal strip were in the hands of rich proprietors, who owned vast estates.
- It was known for its fertile land and abundance of food, was flanked by a wide canal that gave it protection from the Burmese camp at Viseschaicharn, and could be reinforced from Suphanburi.
- This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west.
- Abundant rainfall and very fertile soils have made Gusiiland one of the most productive agricultural areas in Kenya.
- The soil is extremely fertile and produces immense crops when there is enough rainfall, otherwise they are a failure.
- So has the advance of the Sahara Desert by an estimated 10 km a year, increasing competition for remaining fertile land.
- Green mountains, winding creeks and fertile land make for a lyrical and carefree life.
- Generations of Australian schoolchildren have been taught that McMillan was a trailblazing settler, the first to cross the Snowy Mountains, opening up the fertile lands beyond.
- Andhra Pradesh officials are currently touring east Africa, where some governments are ready to welcome Indian farmers to till vacant fertile lands.
- Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is holding its first folk custom exhibition at the fair to display the charm of its fertile land.
Synonyms
fecund, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, prolific, proliferating, propagative, generative
rich, lush
rare fructuous
1. 1.1 Producing many new and inventive ideas.
  her fertile imagination
  Example sentencesExamples
  There seems to be an endless stream of business ideas flowing from the fertile brain of Sir Iain Noble.
  Fame & Fortune: Writer cashes in on fertile imagination.
  His mind was so fertile in ideas and analogies, his quest for precision so exacting that, even if he had been able to complete his revision, it is unlikely that he would ever have been satisfied with it.
  His paintings were the product of a fertile imagination, love of the sea, and the transcendental aspirations common to several 19th-century American painters.
  The painting is replete with colourful animals and childlike forms, all products of Dixon's fertile imagination.
  In Lindsay's fertile imagination, such ideas interact in strange and unexpected ways.
  It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted.
  It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies.
  In an age when television violence and video games threaten to stagnate little minds and their fertile imagination, the good news is that redemption does exist through toys and games.
  I was growing weary reading about someone I don't know and also fear may be the product of your fertile, er, imagination.
  This is not a gospel that originated in the fertile imagination of the apostle Paul.
  A product of the fertile imagination of speed guru Roy LoPresti, the Tiger was something special.
  Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination.
  So it's all just a product of our really fertile imaginations (coming up with this plotline was a collective effort, as you will see if you go to my bio).
  With a fertile imagination, you will produce something creative and that will make you popular.
  These characters are all part of Kamen's fertile imagination as he invented all of these roles.
  Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept.
  Peimer's creative imagination remains fertile as ever; she continues to prove herself a true master of songcraft.
  Your fertile imagination will make you creative.
  The denseness of the imagery suggests either that Klemann has a marvelously fertile imagination, or that we all are inventive in our dreams but fail to hold onto them like this.
  Synonyms
  imaginative, inventive, innovative, innovational, creative, visionary, original, ingenious, resourceful, constructive
  productive, prolific
2. 1.2 (of a situation) encouraging a particular activity or feeling.
  conditions at the time provided fertile ground for revolutionary movements
  Example sentencesExamples
  The ramps will be approximately 150 yards away from this hostel, making it a fertile prospect for drug pushers both on site at the hostel and also the ramp site.
  When Chester accepted the invitation to go to the University of Kentucky, it put our family in a fertile situation where we could grow individually and as a family.
  They have suggested a sinister network where child molesters passed the word around that the schools were fertile areas for their activities.
  I think we're at the end of a very fertile period of activity in American arts.
  Her eyes light up as she imagines some of the fertile opportunities that still lie fallow.
  There is the fertile possibility of meaning within this gruesome mockumentary.
  Indeed, the Web provides a fertile opportunity for innovation and definition.
  The lake, however, has become a fertile subject of debate for joggers and authorities, who blame each other for the decaying of the water body.
  My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition.
  Both proved fertile forums for disruption within the party, and neither was very effective organizationally.
  There was a real sense that we are in the process of building a nation in which new ideas found a fertile environment and were not tied or held back by old fashioned beliefs or customs.
  Taking refuge in the dharma, taking a passionless approach, means that all of life is regarded as a fertile situation and a learning situation, always.
2(of a person, animal, or plant) able to conceive young or produce seed.
（人、动物或植物）能生育的，可繁殖的
Example sentencesExamples
- Another important difference between plant and animal cells is that a complete, fertile plant can develop from a single somatic cell and not just from a fertilized egg.
- Young adults also instituted a new ritual: flying in dense night swarms as millions of the newly fertile individuals sought mates and homes.
- I only hope these families have saved money during the two years that the very fertile goose laid the golden eggs.
- It's in our biology to seek out young and fertile creatures.
- These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils.
- Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy.
- Since female mice are fertile for more than a year, their ovaries had to be generating new oocytes, the scientists reasoned.
- These rescued flies were fertile and phenotypically normal, except that one line produced rescued males with a weak extra sex combs phenotype.
- Lacecaps look quite different to their mophead relatives with flatter flowers made up of an outer ring of large sterile florets surrounding a cluster of tiny fertile flowers.
- As long as the birds were fertile and sang happily, Cypriot Turks maintained hope that they would one day regain their freedom.
- Plants do not produce viable seeds for 20 to 30 years, but individual trees can remain fertile for more than 1000 years.
- Lacecap hydrangeas bear flat round flowerheads with centers of fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of sterile flowers.
- All five mice were fertile and went on to produce their own healthy pups.
- Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing.
- I speculate that such fertile plants may be what hybridized with dugdug.
- Identifying the most fertile cows could help producers achieve higher pregnancy rates in their herds and make their operations more efficient.
- A sample consisting of 30 randomly chosen capitula of each order was used to count the number of fertile flowers and achenes per capitulum to calculate percentage fruit set.
- The new plant is now fertile, able to disperse and reproduce, sometimes beyond the ranges of its parents.
- The advantage is that we are breeding from our most fertile cows.
- The right season for crab and hot pot is autumn and winter, when crabs are fertile and plump with a tight texture and hot pot dispels the chill.
Synonyms
able to conceive, able to have children, fecund, potent, generative, reproductive
1. 2.1 (of a seed or egg) capable of becoming a new individual.
  （种子或卵）能育的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In total, the number of crosses producing fertile eggs in each experiment ranged from 31 to 71.
  The adults I believe will be ready to produce fertile eggs in about a month.
  He also exploited the fertile egg in ways that nobody had ever thought of using it before.
  The left and right bars of each pair represent infertile and fertile eggs, respectively.
  Each plant produced from one to three fertile seeds and ear morphology was sufficiently clear to allow selection of K-suppressed lines.
  A local flock, an exotic bird auction, or a swap meet all can be good sources of fertile eggs.
  These are growing trees whose seeds are fertile.
  These eggs were not fertile, though, and did not hatch.
  But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds.
  The European Union confirmed that the ban on imports into EU countries was only applicable to ostrich meat, live ostriches and fertile eggs.
  For fertile eggs that have hatched, only the outer shell of the chorion remains, while unhatched eggs appear full with the embryo still inside the chorion.
  A total number of 1000 seeds were randomly selected from each of the replicates, given that O. rufipogon usually produces limited fertile seeds.
  Finally, he gave them a fertile egg that needed care to hatch.
  Birch is without fruit but just the same it bears limbs without fertile seed; it has beautiful branches, high on its crown it is finely covered, loaded with leaves, touching the sky.
  Some of my favorite duck hens were getting older though, so I had to reconsider artificial incubation for any fertile eggs they laid.
  Finally, they were given a fertile egg that needed care to hatch.
  The female turtles can only lay a maximum of three fertile eggs at a time - three times less than green sea turtles.
  Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick.
  They are called sloes and inside is a fertile seed protected inside a hard stone.
  All females that laid fertile eggs were given a month's break.
2. 2.2Physics (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons.
  〔物理〕（核材料）能产生裂变物质的，增殖性的
  Example sentencesExamples
  It does not contain fissile or fertile nuclear materials; therefore, there is no risk of nuclear proliferation.
  This report provides an overview of recyclable fissile and fertile materials inventories which can be reused as nuclear fuel.

Origin

Late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre 'to bear'.

refer from Late Middle English:
Refer comes from Latin referre ‘carry back’, from re- ‘back’ and ferre ‘bring’. Referee dates from the early 17th century, but did not appear in sports contexts until the mid 19th century. Referre is also the source of mid 19th-century referendum from the Latin for ‘referring’. Ferre is the source of numerous words in English including confer ‘bring together’; defer ‘put to one side or away’, which shares an origin with differ; fertile ‘bearing’; and transfer ‘carry across’, all of which came into the language in the Late Middle English period.

Definition of fertile in US English:

fertile

adjectiveˈfərdlˈfərdl

1(of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops.
（土壤，土地）肥沃的，多产的
fields along the fertile flood plains of the river
figurative Germany in the 1920s and 30s was fertile ground for such ideas
Example sentencesExamples
- Its a fertile land which needs a lot of irrigation - there are great rivers in Zambia such as the Zambezi.
- We have fertile lands… and you have people sleeping on the pavement, children with no place to live.
- So has the advance of the Sahara Desert by an estimated 10 km a year, increasing competition for remaining fertile land.
- The population is 55 percent urban, with most people concentrated in the Pacific lowlands because of the fertile land there.
- It was known for its fertile land and abundance of food, was flanked by a wide canal that gave it protection from the Burmese camp at Viseschaicharn, and could be reinforced from Suphanburi.
- Malaria has been eradicated and the Hule has become one of the breadbaskets of Israel, acre upon acre of fertile land abundant with fruit and grain and garden crops.
- The soil is extremely fertile and produces immense crops when there is enough rainfall, otherwise they are a failure.
- It seems likely that much of the fertile lands of the Garonne corridor and the coastal strip were in the hands of rich proprietors, who owned vast estates.
- The European soil was more fertile ground than the American for public choice ideas over much of the period under consideration.
- The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant.
- There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance.
- This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west.
- The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete.
- Green mountains, winding creeks and fertile land make for a lyrical and carefree life.
- Some stress the availability of such abundant natural resources as fertile soils and rich supplies of iron, coal, and oil.
- Andhra Pradesh officials are currently touring east Africa, where some governments are ready to welcome Indian farmers to till vacant fertile lands.
- Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is holding its first folk custom exhibition at the fair to display the charm of its fertile land.
- Generations of Australian schoolchildren have been taught that McMillan was a trailblazing settler, the first to cross the Snowy Mountains, opening up the fertile lands beyond.
- By using the Catholic Church as his compost heap, Carrera has planted in fertile ground the seeds of a story that has universal implications.
- Abundant rainfall and very fertile soils have made Gusiiland one of the most productive agricultural areas in Kenya.
Synonyms
fecund, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, prolific, proliferating, propagative, generative
1. 1.1 (of a seed or egg) capable of becoming a new individual.
  （种子或卵）能育的
  Example sentencesExamples
  Each plant produced from one to three fertile seeds and ear morphology was sufficiently clear to allow selection of K-suppressed lines.
  Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick.
  But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds.
  These eggs were not fertile, though, and did not hatch.
  The European Union confirmed that the ban on imports into EU countries was only applicable to ostrich meat, live ostriches and fertile eggs.
  The female turtles can only lay a maximum of three fertile eggs at a time - three times less than green sea turtles.
  These are growing trees whose seeds are fertile.
  All females that laid fertile eggs were given a month's break.
  The adults I believe will be ready to produce fertile eggs in about a month.
  In total, the number of crosses producing fertile eggs in each experiment ranged from 31 to 71.
  Birch is without fruit but just the same it bears limbs without fertile seed; it has beautiful branches, high on its crown it is finely covered, loaded with leaves, touching the sky.
  He also exploited the fertile egg in ways that nobody had ever thought of using it before.
  A local flock, an exotic bird auction, or a swap meet all can be good sources of fertile eggs.
  For fertile eggs that have hatched, only the outer shell of the chorion remains, while unhatched eggs appear full with the embryo still inside the chorion.
  They are called sloes and inside is a fertile seed protected inside a hard stone.
  Some of my favorite duck hens were getting older though, so I had to reconsider artificial incubation for any fertile eggs they laid.
  Finally, he gave them a fertile egg that needed care to hatch.
  Finally, they were given a fertile egg that needed care to hatch.
  A total number of 1000 seeds were randomly selected from each of the replicates, given that O. rufipogon usually produces limited fertile seeds.
  The left and right bars of each pair represent infertile and fertile eggs, respectively.
2. 1.2 (of a person, animal, or plant) able to conceive young or produce seed.
  （人、动物或植物）能生育的，可繁殖的
  Barbara carefully calculated the period when she was most fertile
  卡伦仔细地计算了自己的最佳受孕期。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The new plant is now fertile, able to disperse and reproduce, sometimes beyond the ranges of its parents.
  Since female mice are fertile for more than a year, their ovaries had to be generating new oocytes, the scientists reasoned.
  I speculate that such fertile plants may be what hybridized with dugdug.
  Identifying the most fertile cows could help producers achieve higher pregnancy rates in their herds and make their operations more efficient.
  The right season for crab and hot pot is autumn and winter, when crabs are fertile and plump with a tight texture and hot pot dispels the chill.
  Another important difference between plant and animal cells is that a complete, fertile plant can develop from a single somatic cell and not just from a fertilized egg.
  These rescued flies were fertile and phenotypically normal, except that one line produced rescued males with a weak extra sex combs phenotype.
  A sample consisting of 30 randomly chosen capitula of each order was used to count the number of fertile flowers and achenes per capitulum to calculate percentage fruit set.
  Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing.
  Lacecaps look quite different to their mophead relatives with flatter flowers made up of an outer ring of large sterile florets surrounding a cluster of tiny fertile flowers.
  Plants do not produce viable seeds for 20 to 30 years, but individual trees can remain fertile for more than 1000 years.
  Young adults also instituted a new ritual: flying in dense night swarms as millions of the newly fertile individuals sought mates and homes.
  Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy.
  As long as the birds were fertile and sang happily, Cypriot Turks maintained hope that they would one day regain their freedom.
  It's in our biology to seek out young and fertile creatures.
  Lacecap hydrangeas bear flat round flowerheads with centers of fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of sterile flowers.
  I only hope these families have saved money during the two years that the very fertile goose laid the golden eggs.
  The advantage is that we are breeding from our most fertile cows.
  These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils.
  All five mice were fertile and went on to produce their own healthy pups.
  Synonyms
  able to conceive, able to have children, fecund, potent, generative, reproductive
3. 1.3 (of a person's mind or imagination) producing many new and inventive ideas with ease.
  （人的头脑或想像力）丰富的，富于创新的
  Example sentencesExamples
  With a fertile imagination, you will produce something creative and that will make you popular.
  Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination.
  This is not a gospel that originated in the fertile imagination of the apostle Paul.
  I was growing weary reading about someone I don't know and also fear may be the product of your fertile, er, imagination.
  The painting is replete with colourful animals and childlike forms, all products of Dixon's fertile imagination.
  In Lindsay's fertile imagination, such ideas interact in strange and unexpected ways.
  Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept.
  Your fertile imagination will make you creative.
  These characters are all part of Kamen's fertile imagination as he invented all of these roles.
  It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies.
  A product of the fertile imagination of speed guru Roy LoPresti, the Tiger was something special.
  The denseness of the imagery suggests either that Klemann has a marvelously fertile imagination, or that we all are inventive in our dreams but fail to hold onto them like this.
  Fame & Fortune: Writer cashes in on fertile imagination.
  So it's all just a product of our really fertile imaginations (coming up with this plotline was a collective effort, as you will see if you go to my bio).
  There seems to be an endless stream of business ideas flowing from the fertile brain of Sir Iain Noble.
  His paintings were the product of a fertile imagination, love of the sea, and the transcendental aspirations common to several 19th-century American painters.
  His mind was so fertile in ideas and analogies, his quest for precision so exacting that, even if he had been able to complete his revision, it is unlikely that he would ever have been satisfied with it.
  It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted.
  Peimer's creative imagination remains fertile as ever; she continues to prove herself a true master of songcraft.
  In an age when television violence and video games threaten to stagnate little minds and their fertile imagination, the good news is that redemption does exist through toys and games.
  Synonyms
  imaginative, inventive, innovative, innovational, creative, visionary, original, ingenious, resourceful, constructive
4. 1.4 (of a situation or subject) fruitful and productive in generating new ideas.
  （情况，问题）富有新思想的；发人深思的
  a series of fertile debates within the social sciences
  社会科学领域内一系列富有创见的辩论。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There was a real sense that we are in the process of building a nation in which new ideas found a fertile environment and were not tied or held back by old fashioned beliefs or customs.
  They have suggested a sinister network where child molesters passed the word around that the schools were fertile areas for their activities.
  Both proved fertile forums for disruption within the party, and neither was very effective organizationally.
  My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition.
  The lake, however, has become a fertile subject of debate for joggers and authorities, who blame each other for the decaying of the water body.
  There is the fertile possibility of meaning within this gruesome mockumentary.
  Taking refuge in the dharma, taking a passionless approach, means that all of life is regarded as a fertile situation and a learning situation, always.
  The ramps will be approximately 150 yards away from this hostel, making it a fertile prospect for drug pushers both on site at the hostel and also the ramp site.
  Her eyes light up as she imagines some of the fertile opportunities that still lie fallow.
  Indeed, the Web provides a fertile opportunity for innovation and definition.
  I think we're at the end of a very fertile period of activity in American arts.
  When Chester accepted the invitation to go to the University of Kentucky, it put our family in a fertile situation where we could grow individually and as a family.
5. 1.5Physics (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons.
  〔物理〕（核材料）能产生裂变物质的，增殖性的
  Example sentencesExamples
  This report provides an overview of recyclable fissile and fertile materials inventories which can be reused as nuclear fuel.
  It does not contain fissile or fertile nuclear materials; therefore, there is no risk of nuclear proliferation.

Origin

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

单词	fertile
释义	Definition of fertile in English: fertile adjective ˈfəːtʌɪlˈfərdl 1(of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops. （土壤，土地）肥沃的，多产的 the fertile coastal plain Example sentencesExamples Malaria has been eradicated and the Hule has become one of the breadbaskets of Israel, acre upon acre of fertile land abundant with fruit and grain and garden crops. The population is 55 percent urban, with most people concentrated in the Pacific lowlands because of the fertile land there. There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance. By using the Catholic Church as his compost heap, Carrera has planted in fertile ground the seeds of a story that has universal implications. The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant. We have fertile lands… and you have people sleeping on the pavement, children with no place to live. The European soil was more fertile ground than the American for public choice ideas over much of the period under consideration. The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete. Its a fertile land which needs a lot of irrigation - there are great rivers in Zambia such as the Zambezi. Some stress the availability of such abundant natural resources as fertile soils and rich supplies of iron, coal, and oil. It seems likely that much of the fertile lands of the Garonne corridor and the coastal strip were in the hands of rich proprietors, who owned vast estates. It was known for its fertile land and abundance of food, was flanked by a wide canal that gave it protection from the Burmese camp at Viseschaicharn, and could be reinforced from Suphanburi. This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west. Abundant rainfall and very fertile soils have made Gusiiland one of the most productive agricultural areas in Kenya. The soil is extremely fertile and produces immense crops when there is enough rainfall, otherwise they are a failure. So has the advance of the Sahara Desert by an estimated 10 km a year, increasing competition for remaining fertile land. Green mountains, winding creeks and fertile land make for a lyrical and carefree life. Generations of Australian schoolchildren have been taught that McMillan was a trailblazing settler, the first to cross the Snowy Mountains, opening up the fertile lands beyond. Andhra Pradesh officials are currently touring east Africa, where some governments are ready to welcome Indian farmers to till vacant fertile lands. Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is holding its first folk custom exhibition at the fair to display the charm of its fertile land. Synonyms fecund, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, prolific, proliferating, propagative, generative rich, lush rare fructuous 1.1 Producing many new and inventive ideas. her fertile imagination Example sentencesExamples There seems to be an endless stream of business ideas flowing from the fertile brain of Sir Iain Noble. Fame & Fortune: Writer cashes in on fertile imagination. His mind was so fertile in ideas and analogies, his quest for precision so exacting that, even if he had been able to complete his revision, it is unlikely that he would ever have been satisfied with it. His paintings were the product of a fertile imagination, love of the sea, and the transcendental aspirations common to several 19th-century American painters. The painting is replete with colourful animals and childlike forms, all products of Dixon's fertile imagination. In Lindsay's fertile imagination, such ideas interact in strange and unexpected ways. It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted. It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies. In an age when television violence and video games threaten to stagnate little minds and their fertile imagination, the good news is that redemption does exist through toys and games. I was growing weary reading about someone I don't know and also fear may be the product of your fertile, er, imagination. This is not a gospel that originated in the fertile imagination of the apostle Paul. A product of the fertile imagination of speed guru Roy LoPresti, the Tiger was something special. Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination. So it's all just a product of our really fertile imaginations (coming up with this plotline was a collective effort, as you will see if you go to my bio). With a fertile imagination, you will produce something creative and that will make you popular. These characters are all part of Kamen's fertile imagination as he invented all of these roles. Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept. Peimer's creative imagination remains fertile as ever; she continues to prove herself a true master of songcraft. Your fertile imagination will make you creative. The denseness of the imagery suggests either that Klemann has a marvelously fertile imagination, or that we all are inventive in our dreams but fail to hold onto them like this. Synonyms imaginative, inventive, innovative, innovational, creative, visionary, original, ingenious, resourceful, constructive productive, prolific 1.2 (of a situation) encouraging a particular activity or feeling. conditions at the time provided fertile ground for revolutionary movements Example sentencesExamples The ramps will be approximately 150 yards away from this hostel, making it a fertile prospect for drug pushers both on site at the hostel and also the ramp site. When Chester accepted the invitation to go to the University of Kentucky, it put our family in a fertile situation where we could grow individually and as a family. They have suggested a sinister network where child molesters passed the word around that the schools were fertile areas for their activities. I think we're at the end of a very fertile period of activity in American arts. Her eyes light up as she imagines some of the fertile opportunities that still lie fallow. There is the fertile possibility of meaning within this gruesome mockumentary. Indeed, the Web provides a fertile opportunity for innovation and definition. The lake, however, has become a fertile subject of debate for joggers and authorities, who blame each other for the decaying of the water body. My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition. Both proved fertile forums for disruption within the party, and neither was very effective organizationally. There was a real sense that we are in the process of building a nation in which new ideas found a fertile environment and were not tied or held back by old fashioned beliefs or customs. Taking refuge in the dharma, taking a passionless approach, means that all of life is regarded as a fertile situation and a learning situation, always. 2(of a person, animal, or plant) able to conceive young or produce seed. （人、动物或植物）能生育的，可繁殖的 Example sentencesExamples Another important difference between plant and animal cells is that a complete, fertile plant can develop from a single somatic cell and not just from a fertilized egg. Young adults also instituted a new ritual: flying in dense night swarms as millions of the newly fertile individuals sought mates and homes. I only hope these families have saved money during the two years that the very fertile goose laid the golden eggs. It's in our biology to seek out young and fertile creatures. These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils. Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy. Since female mice are fertile for more than a year, their ovaries had to be generating new oocytes, the scientists reasoned. These rescued flies were fertile and phenotypically normal, except that one line produced rescued males with a weak extra sex combs phenotype. Lacecaps look quite different to their mophead relatives with flatter flowers made up of an outer ring of large sterile florets surrounding a cluster of tiny fertile flowers. As long as the birds were fertile and sang happily, Cypriot Turks maintained hope that they would one day regain their freedom. Plants do not produce viable seeds for 20 to 30 years, but individual trees can remain fertile for more than 1000 years. Lacecap hydrangeas bear flat round flowerheads with centers of fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of sterile flowers. All five mice were fertile and went on to produce their own healthy pups. Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing. I speculate that such fertile plants may be what hybridized with dugdug. Identifying the most fertile cows could help producers achieve higher pregnancy rates in their herds and make their operations more efficient. A sample consisting of 30 randomly chosen capitula of each order was used to count the number of fertile flowers and achenes per capitulum to calculate percentage fruit set. The new plant is now fertile, able to disperse and reproduce, sometimes beyond the ranges of its parents. The advantage is that we are breeding from our most fertile cows. The right season for crab and hot pot is autumn and winter, when crabs are fertile and plump with a tight texture and hot pot dispels the chill. Synonyms able to conceive, able to have children, fecund, potent, generative, reproductive 2.1 (of a seed or egg) capable of becoming a new individual. （种子或卵）能育的 Example sentencesExamples In total, the number of crosses producing fertile eggs in each experiment ranged from 31 to 71. The adults I believe will be ready to produce fertile eggs in about a month. He also exploited the fertile egg in ways that nobody had ever thought of using it before. The left and right bars of each pair represent infertile and fertile eggs, respectively. Each plant produced from one to three fertile seeds and ear morphology was sufficiently clear to allow selection of K-suppressed lines. A local flock, an exotic bird auction, or a swap meet all can be good sources of fertile eggs. These are growing trees whose seeds are fertile. These eggs were not fertile, though, and did not hatch. But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds. The European Union confirmed that the ban on imports into EU countries was only applicable to ostrich meat, live ostriches and fertile eggs. For fertile eggs that have hatched, only the outer shell of the chorion remains, while unhatched eggs appear full with the embryo still inside the chorion. A total number of 1000 seeds were randomly selected from each of the replicates, given that O. rufipogon usually produces limited fertile seeds. Finally, he gave them a fertile egg that needed care to hatch. Birch is without fruit but just the same it bears limbs without fertile seed; it has beautiful branches, high on its crown it is finely covered, loaded with leaves, touching the sky. Some of my favorite duck hens were getting older though, so I had to reconsider artificial incubation for any fertile eggs they laid. Finally, they were given a fertile egg that needed care to hatch. The female turtles can only lay a maximum of three fertile eggs at a time - three times less than green sea turtles. Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick. They are called sloes and inside is a fertile seed protected inside a hard stone. All females that laid fertile eggs were given a month's break. 2.2Physics (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons. 〔物理〕（核材料）能产生裂变物质的，增殖性的 Example sentencesExamples It does not contain fissile or fertile nuclear materials; therefore, there is no risk of nuclear proliferation. This report provides an overview of recyclable fissile and fertile materials inventories which can be reused as nuclear fuel. Origin Late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre 'to bear'. refer from Late Middle English: Refer comes from Latin referre ‘carry back’, from re- ‘back’ and ferre ‘bring’. Referee dates from the early 17th century, but did not appear in sports contexts until the mid 19th century. Referre is also the source of mid 19th-century referendum from the Latin for ‘referring’. Ferre is the source of numerous words in English including confer ‘bring together’; defer ‘put to one side or away’, which shares an origin with differ; fertile ‘bearing’; and transfer ‘carry across’, all of which came into the language in the Late Middle English period. Definition of fertile in US English: fertile adjectiveˈfərdlˈfərdl 1(of soil or land) producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops. （土壤，土地）肥沃的，多产的 fields along the fertile flood plains of the river figurative Germany in the 1920s and 30s was fertile ground for such ideas Example sentencesExamples Its a fertile land which needs a lot of irrigation - there are great rivers in Zambia such as the Zambezi. We have fertile lands… and you have people sleeping on the pavement, children with no place to live. So has the advance of the Sahara Desert by an estimated 10 km a year, increasing competition for remaining fertile land. The population is 55 percent urban, with most people concentrated in the Pacific lowlands because of the fertile land there. It was known for its fertile land and abundance of food, was flanked by a wide canal that gave it protection from the Burmese camp at Viseschaicharn, and could be reinforced from Suphanburi. Malaria has been eradicated and the Hule has become one of the breadbaskets of Israel, acre upon acre of fertile land abundant with fruit and grain and garden crops. The soil is extremely fertile and produces immense crops when there is enough rainfall, otherwise they are a failure. It seems likely that much of the fertile lands of the Garonne corridor and the coastal strip were in the hands of rich proprietors, who owned vast estates. The European soil was more fertile ground than the American for public choice ideas over much of the period under consideration. The mountains prevented large-scale farming and impelled the Greeks to look beyond their borders to new lands where fertile soil was more abundant. There is fertile land on the Andean plateau but not in abundance. This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west. The once fertile land of Egypt is now being ruined by the proliferation of brick, stone and concrete. Green mountains, winding creeks and fertile land make for a lyrical and carefree life. Some stress the availability of such abundant natural resources as fertile soils and rich supplies of iron, coal, and oil. Andhra Pradesh officials are currently touring east Africa, where some governments are ready to welcome Indian farmers to till vacant fertile lands. Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province is holding its first folk custom exhibition at the fair to display the charm of its fertile land. Generations of Australian schoolchildren have been taught that McMillan was a trailblazing settler, the first to cross the Snowy Mountains, opening up the fertile lands beyond. By using the Catholic Church as his compost heap, Carrera has planted in fertile ground the seeds of a story that has universal implications. Abundant rainfall and very fertile soils have made Gusiiland one of the most productive agricultural areas in Kenya. Synonyms fecund, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, prolific, proliferating, propagative, generative 1.1 (of a seed or egg) capable of becoming a new individual. （种子或卵）能育的 Example sentencesExamples Each plant produced from one to three fertile seeds and ear morphology was sufficiently clear to allow selection of K-suppressed lines. Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick. But the other female flowers nearby are pollinated as the wasp brushes against them, and will form fertile seeds. These eggs were not fertile, though, and did not hatch. The European Union confirmed that the ban on imports into EU countries was only applicable to ostrich meat, live ostriches and fertile eggs. The female turtles can only lay a maximum of three fertile eggs at a time - three times less than green sea turtles. These are growing trees whose seeds are fertile. All females that laid fertile eggs were given a month's break. The adults I believe will be ready to produce fertile eggs in about a month. In total, the number of crosses producing fertile eggs in each experiment ranged from 31 to 71. Birch is without fruit but just the same it bears limbs without fertile seed; it has beautiful branches, high on its crown it is finely covered, loaded with leaves, touching the sky. He also exploited the fertile egg in ways that nobody had ever thought of using it before. A local flock, an exotic bird auction, or a swap meet all can be good sources of fertile eggs. For fertile eggs that have hatched, only the outer shell of the chorion remains, while unhatched eggs appear full with the embryo still inside the chorion. They are called sloes and inside is a fertile seed protected inside a hard stone. Some of my favorite duck hens were getting older though, so I had to reconsider artificial incubation for any fertile eggs they laid. Finally, he gave them a fertile egg that needed care to hatch. Finally, they were given a fertile egg that needed care to hatch. A total number of 1000 seeds were randomly selected from each of the replicates, given that O. rufipogon usually produces limited fertile seeds. The left and right bars of each pair represent infertile and fertile eggs, respectively. 1.2 (of a person, animal, or plant) able to conceive young or produce seed. （人、动物或植物）能生育的，可繁殖的 Barbara carefully calculated the period when she was most fertile 卡伦仔细地计算了自己的最佳受孕期。 Example sentencesExamples The new plant is now fertile, able to disperse and reproduce, sometimes beyond the ranges of its parents. Since female mice are fertile for more than a year, their ovaries had to be generating new oocytes, the scientists reasoned. I speculate that such fertile plants may be what hybridized with dugdug. Identifying the most fertile cows could help producers achieve higher pregnancy rates in their herds and make their operations more efficient. The right season for crab and hot pot is autumn and winter, when crabs are fertile and plump with a tight texture and hot pot dispels the chill. Another important difference between plant and animal cells is that a complete, fertile plant can develop from a single somatic cell and not just from a fertilized egg. These rescued flies were fertile and phenotypically normal, except that one line produced rescued males with a weak extra sex combs phenotype. A sample consisting of 30 randomly chosen capitula of each order was used to count the number of fertile flowers and achenes per capitulum to calculate percentage fruit set. Panthers are now birthing healthy fertile cubs and numbers are growing. Lacecaps look quite different to their mophead relatives with flatter flowers made up of an outer ring of large sterile florets surrounding a cluster of tiny fertile flowers. Plants do not produce viable seeds for 20 to 30 years, but individual trees can remain fertile for more than 1000 years. Young adults also instituted a new ritual: flying in dense night swarms as millions of the newly fertile individuals sought mates and homes. Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy. As long as the birds were fertile and sang happily, Cypriot Turks maintained hope that they would one day regain their freedom. It's in our biology to seek out young and fertile creatures. Lacecap hydrangeas bear flat round flowerheads with centers of fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of sterile flowers. I only hope these families have saved money during the two years that the very fertile goose laid the golden eggs. The advantage is that we are breeding from our most fertile cows. These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils. All five mice were fertile and went on to produce their own healthy pups. Synonyms able to conceive, able to have children, fecund, potent, generative, reproductive 1.3 (of a person's mind or imagination) producing many new and inventive ideas with ease. （人的头脑或想像力）丰富的，富于创新的 Example sentencesExamples With a fertile imagination, you will produce something creative and that will make you popular. Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination. This is not a gospel that originated in the fertile imagination of the apostle Paul. I was growing weary reading about someone I don't know and also fear may be the product of your fertile, er, imagination. The painting is replete with colourful animals and childlike forms, all products of Dixon's fertile imagination. In Lindsay's fertile imagination, such ideas interact in strange and unexpected ways. Apart from the stoic traditional perspective that purists hold, it is the fertile imagination of artistes that brings about a fresh outlook to a customary concept. Your fertile imagination will make you creative. These characters are all part of Kamen's fertile imagination as he invented all of these roles. It was my territory: wilder, more interesting, less boringly formal, where I could indulge my already fertile imagination, and lose myself in elaborate fantasies. A product of the fertile imagination of speed guru Roy LoPresti, the Tiger was something special. The denseness of the imagery suggests either that Klemann has a marvelously fertile imagination, or that we all are inventive in our dreams but fail to hold onto them like this. Fame & Fortune: Writer cashes in on fertile imagination. So it's all just a product of our really fertile imaginations (coming up with this plotline was a collective effort, as you will see if you go to my bio). There seems to be an endless stream of business ideas flowing from the fertile brain of Sir Iain Noble. His paintings were the product of a fertile imagination, love of the sea, and the transcendental aspirations common to several 19th-century American painters. His mind was so fertile in ideas and analogies, his quest for precision so exacting that, even if he had been able to complete his revision, it is unlikely that he would ever have been satisfied with it. It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted. Peimer's creative imagination remains fertile as ever; she continues to prove herself a true master of songcraft. In an age when television violence and video games threaten to stagnate little minds and their fertile imagination, the good news is that redemption does exist through toys and games. Synonyms imaginative, inventive, innovative, innovational, creative, visionary, original, ingenious, resourceful, constructive 1.4 (of a situation or subject) fruitful and productive in generating new ideas. （情况，问题）富有新思想的；发人深思的 a series of fertile debates within the social sciences 社会科学领域内一系列富有创见的辩论。 Example sentencesExamples There was a real sense that we are in the process of building a nation in which new ideas found a fertile environment and were not tied or held back by old fashioned beliefs or customs. They have suggested a sinister network where child molesters passed the word around that the schools were fertile areas for their activities. Both proved fertile forums for disruption within the party, and neither was very effective organizationally. My own learning has taken place at the fertile conjunction of Hinduism and Buddhism, although my deistic inclination firmly locates me in the former tradition. The lake, however, has become a fertile subject of debate for joggers and authorities, who blame each other for the decaying of the water body. There is the fertile possibility of meaning within this gruesome mockumentary. Taking refuge in the dharma, taking a passionless approach, means that all of life is regarded as a fertile situation and a learning situation, always. The ramps will be approximately 150 yards away from this hostel, making it a fertile prospect for drug pushers both on site at the hostel and also the ramp site. Her eyes light up as she imagines some of the fertile opportunities that still lie fallow. Indeed, the Web provides a fertile opportunity for innovation and definition. I think we're at the end of a very fertile period of activity in American arts. When Chester accepted the invitation to go to the University of Kentucky, it put our family in a fertile situation where we could grow individually and as a family. 1.5Physics (of nuclear material) able to become fissile by the capture of neutrons. 〔物理〕（核材料）能产生裂变物质的，增殖性的 Example sentencesExamples This report provides an overview of recyclable fissile and fertile materials inventories which can be reused as nuclear fuel. It does not contain fissile or fertile nuclear materials; therefore, there is no risk of nuclear proliferation. Origin Late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’.
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