Definition of Infertile

1. Adjective. Incapable of reproducing. "An infertile couple"


Definition of Infertile

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

Definition of Infertile

1. Adjective. not fertile ¹

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Definition of Infertile

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Infertile

inferobranchiata
inferobranchiate
inferognathal
inferolateral margin
inferolateral myocardial infarction
inferomedial margin
inferrable
inferred
inferrer
inferrers
inferreth
inferrible
inferring
infers
infertile (current term)
infertile male syndrome
infertilely
infertilities
infest
infestant
infestants
infestation
infestations
infested
infester
infesters
infesteth
infesting

Literary usage of Infertile

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

1. Public School Methods (1921)
"one of them ceases to exist from any cause, the soil becomes infertile. ... How Soils Become infertile. This question calls for nothing so much as a test of ..."

2. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"Amurath IV. published an edict which made smoking tobacco a capital offence, a measure which was founded on an opinion that it rendered the people infertile ..."

3. Shahmah in Pursuit of Freedom; Or, The Branded Hand by Frances Harriet Green (1858)
"... Instances of Persistency of Color in Lover Animals—Reasons for infertile or Inferior Offspring produced between hostile Races— Men universally recognize ..."

4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... \y infertile: fl. summer. — PI. Fendi. 71; Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. Or «RAV, Ie Branched from near the base, glabrous or obscurely ..."

5. Productive Poultry Husbandry: A Complete Text Dealing with the Principles by Harry Reynolds Lewis (1919)
"It, infertile egg after being in incu- shows any development. C, Fertile e germs keep much longer and arc above that all kinds of stale, shrunken, unclean, ..."

6. A Practical Treatise on Impotence, Sterility, and Allied Disorders of the by Samuel Weissell Gross (1881)
"One of the most common causes of infertile semen is nervous exhaustion or neurasthenia, attended with abnormal seminal and prostatic discharges, ..."

7. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species by Charles Darwin (1888)
"... illegitimate offspring in some degree dwarfed and infertile—Equal-styled varieties of P. Sinensis, auricula, farinosa, and elatior—P. vulgaris, ..."

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