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Definition of infertile adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

infertile

adjective
 
/ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl/
 
/ɪnˈfɜːrtl/
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  1. (of people, animals and plants) not able to have babies or produce young
    • an infertile couple
  2. (of land) not able to produce good crops opposite fertile
    3. Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (from ferre ‘to bear’).
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