Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
A city and township in Iowa.
A city in Minnesota.
From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“I bear, carry”).
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