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infertile
Word definitions for infertile in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile , unfertile ] [ant: fertile ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infertile \In*fer"tile\, a. [L. infertilis: cf. F. infertile. See In- not, and Fertile .] Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; unable to propagate its kind; as, an infertile soil; an infertile hybrid; -- of living things and of soil or land.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from French infertile (late 15c.), from Late Latin infertilis "unfruitful," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + fertilis (see fertile ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN couple ▪ As usually no pregnancy does begin, we must wonder how infertile couples manage to repair the damage. ▪ What of cloning a child for infertile couples ? ▪ Antorini recognises that the pressure to forge ahead ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. not fertile
Usage examples of infertile.
The New Confucianism was rooted only shallowly in the infertile soil of their natures.
It surged eastward and for twelve million years dominated the foothills, cutting them away, scraping down hillocks, and depositing on the plains new layers of soil characterized by a rocky, infertile content.
Therefore genes for becoming reproductively infertile in middle age became more numerous, since they were carried in the bodies of grandchildren whose survival was assisted by grandmotherly altruism.
These toads will now be released in the areas of infestation where they will mate with the native females, which will then produce infertile eggs.
Honce, play now, and have always played in keeping the courtesans infertile.
Much of this land has been overfarmed and is becoming infertile, which is one more thing for Turai to worry about.
While nursing she was not breedable, and she continued to give suck, diminuendo, long enough that she stayed infertile until the next midday.
She had no desire to lie in pain beneath a cold warrior while he planted his seed within her infertile body.
As far as the eye can see the infertile desert lies in the pitiless glare of the merciless sun, a lifeless, trackless, feckless, fuckless, waste strewn with the bones of luckless wayfarers…"
In our octospider species, thanks to the genetic engineering genius of our predecessors, an adult female octo is capable of producing, as the result of a sexual union with a mature male octospider, a single, infertile juvenile of limited life expectancy and somewhat reduced capability.
The basin in which Angela Dunfey washes her dishes, Connie notes, is actually smaller than the one in which the Church of the Immediate Conception immortalizes infertiles.