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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈfɜːtaɪl/, /ˈfɜːtəl/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈfɝːtəl/, /ˈfɝːtaɪl/
• (Canada) IPA: /ˈfɝːtaɪl/
• 異形同音異義語: firtle, furtle (one 米国発音 pronunciation)

形容詞

fertile (comparative more fertile, superlative most fertile)

1. Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
2. (figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:productive

3. (biology)
   1. Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.

      Synonym: (archaic) childing

      Antonyms: barren, infertile, sterile

      Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.

   2. Capable of developing past the egg stage.
4. (physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor.

   There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.

派生語

関連する語

• fertilisation, fertilization
• fertilise, fertilize
• fertiliser, fertilizer
• fertility, fertileness
• subfertile

Further reading

• “fertile”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fertile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “fertile”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• firelet