fertility
fertility is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. Shak. Thy very weeds are beautiful; thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility. Byron.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- aftercrop
- aftergrowth
- aftermath
- and
- arrish
- conceive
- cow
- crop
- eddish
- fecund
- fecundate
- fecundify
- fecundity
- fertile
- fertilization
- fertilize
- flowing
- fructification
- fructify
- frugiferous
- fruitful
- generate
- generative
- honey
- hydra
- impregnate
- land
- life-giving
- luxuriance
- luxuriant
- make
- milch
- milk
- multiparous
- multiplication
- multiply
- omnific
- parturient
- plot
- pregnancy
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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