English Dictionary: fertility | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Fertility \Fer*til"i*ty\, n. [L. fertilitas: cf. F. fertilit[82].] 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. [bd]fertility of resource.[b8] --E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertility. --Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. --Byron. |