fertile: meaning and definitions

Biology Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.

Biology Capable of growing and developing; able to mature: a fertile egg.

Botany Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.

Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.

Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth: fertile soil.

Highly or continuously productive; prolific: a fertile imagination; a fertile source of new ideas.

Physics Capable of producing fissionable material: fertile thorium 232.