STERILE

a.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

2.
a.

Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.

3.
a.

Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.

4.
a.

Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.

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