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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
infertile
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 with the necessary research is likely to be consumer-led by infertile couples.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ New medical techniques provide hope for infertile couples.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As usually no pregnancy does begin, we must wonder how infertile couples manage to repair the damage.
▪ If the light passes through the egg, it is infertile.
▪ It has been used diagnostically in infertile patients.
▪ The better way to handle the situation is to render the cats infertile without actually neutering them.
▪ The most probable cause of the problem was the males being infertile.
▪ Those who choose infertile mates leave no descendants.
▪ What of cloning a child for infertile couples?
▪ When the land is exposed to the harsh tropical sun and torrential rain, it quickly becomes infertile.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infertile

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
infertile

1590s, from French infertile (late 15c.), from Late Latin infertilis "unfruitful," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + fertilis (see fertile).

Wiktionary
infertile

a. not fertile

WordNet
infertile

adj. incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile, unfertile] [ant: 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.