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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.

In a fertile or fruitful manner.

Fertility. Sir P. Sidney.

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

In an infertile manner.

Not fertile; infertile; barren. -- Un*fer"tile*ness, n.

ot timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.

Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

To make fertile. [Obs.] "To battel barren land." Ray.

Fertile. See Battel, a. [Obs.]

Low, fertile land; a river valley. [Scot.] Jomieson.

nfertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race.

To sear; to dry up. [Obs.] Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb. Shak.

Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

That which makes fat or fertile. The clouds drop fatness. Philips.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood. Dryden.

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertilit…

The act or process of rendering fertile.

To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows. And fertilize the field that each pretends to gain. Byron.

That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial manures, as guano, phosphate of lime, etc.