fertile

adjective

1. bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific: fertile soil.
2. bearing or capable of bearing offspring.
3. abundantly productive: a fertile imagination.
4. producing an abundance (usually followed by of or in): a land fertile of wheat.
5. conducive to productiveness: fertile showers.
6. Biology.
   1. fertilized, as an egg or ovum; fecundated.
   2. capable of growth or development, as seeds or eggs.
7. Botany.
   1. capable of producing sexual reproductive structures.
   2. capable of causing fertilization, as an anther with fully developed pollen.
   3. having spore-bearing organs, as a frond.
8. Physics. (of a nuclide) capable of being transmuted into a fissile nuclide by irradiation with neutrons: Uranium 238 and thorium 232 are fertile nuclides.Compare fissile(def 2).
9. produced in abundance.

adjective

1. capable of producing offspring
2. 1. (of land) having nutrients capable of sustaining an abundant growth of plants
   2. (of farm animals) capable of breeding stock
3. biology
   1. capable of undergoing growth and developmentfertile seeds; fertile eggs
   2. (of plants) capable of producing gametes, spores, seeds, or fruits
4. producing many offspring; prolific
5. highly productive; rich; abundanta fertile brain
6. physics (of a substance) able to be transformed into fissile or fissionable material, esp in a nuclear reactor
7. conducive to productivenessfertile rain

adj.

1. Capable of conceiving and bearing young.
2. Fertilized. Used of an ovum.

1. Capable of producing offspring, seeds, or fruit.
2. Capable of developing into a complete organism; fertilized.
3. Capable of supporting plant life; favorable to the growth of crops and plants.