FERTILE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination. Though he in a fertile climate dwell. Shak.

2.
a.

Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.

3.
a.

Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

4.
a.

produced in abundance; plenteous; ample. Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. Milton.


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