Adjective
- 1. fertile (vs. sterile), conceptive, impregnable, fecund, fertilizable, rank, conceptive#1, impregnable, fruitful, potent#3, strong#4, stiff, productive
- usage: capable of reproducing
- 2. fecund, fertile, prolific, productive (vs. unproductive)
- usage: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"
- 3. prolific, fertile, fruitful (vs. unfruitful)
- usage: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree"
- 4. fat, fertile, productive, rich, fruitful (vs. unfruitful)
- usage: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil"
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