fertile
形容词 adj.
英 /ˈfɜːtaɪl/|/ˈfɜːtəl/
美 /ˈfɝːtəl/|/ˈfɝːtaɪl/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
- Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
- Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
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Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
— Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
- Capable of developing past the egg stage.
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Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.
— There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
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词源
From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).
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