Definition of Fertile phase

1. Noun. The time in the menstrual cycle when fertilization is most likely to be possible (7 days before to 7 days after ovulation).

Exact synonyms: Fertile Period
Group relationships: Menstrual Cycle
Generic synonyms: Phase, Stage

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fertile Phase

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ferryman
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ferrywoman
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fersmanite
fersmite
ferthe
fertigation
fertigations
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fertile material
fertile phase (current term)
fertilely
fertileness
fertilenesses
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fertilest
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fertilisation
fertilisations
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fertilised
fertiliser
fertilisers
fertilises

Literary usage of Fertile phase

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"... there is in the ontogeny of the Ferns a preliminary vegetative phase, which may be of varying extent; subsequently the fertile phase begins. ..."

2. I, Mary MacLane: A Diary of Human Days by Mary MacLane (1917)
"One of the pendants is my fertile phase of Weakness and the other my odd encompassing Folly. The smaller stones are seventeen in number and their names and ..."

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