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Webster 1913 Edition


Fertility

Fer-til′i-ty

,
Noun.
[L.
fertilitas
: cf. F.
fertilité
.]
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness;
as, the
fertility
of soil, or of imagination
.
fertility of resource.”
E. Everett.
And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps
Corrupting in its own
fertility
.
Shakespeare
Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste
More rich than other climes’
fertility
.
Byron.

Webster 1828 Edition


Fertility

FERTIL'ITY

,
Noun.
[L. fertilitas.]
1.
Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit in abundance; as the fertility of land, ground, soil, fields and meadows.
2.
Richness; abundant resources; fertile invention; as the fertility of genius, of fancy or imagination.

Definition 2024


fertility

fertility

English

Noun

fertility (countable and uncountable, plural fertilities)

  1. (uncountable) The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
    Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
  2. (countable) The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.
  3. The average number of births per woman within a population.

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