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# fertile

«fertile» in Mova's school dictionary: **good for growing plants and crops** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (fertile; more fertile, most fertile)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fertile land or soil is good for growing plants and crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#m1)

2) A fertile animal or person can have babies; a fertile seed or egg can grow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#m2)

3) A fertile imagination or mind has lots of new ideas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons fertile soil near rivers and volcanoes helps farming. In science fertile eggs can hatch. Phrases: «fertile soil», «fertile land», «a fertile imagination», «the Fertile Crescent».

### examples

- The river leaves fertile soil on the fields. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x1)
- Farmers grow lots of wheat on fertile land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x2)
- Volcanic soil is very fertile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x3)
- Only fertile eggs can hatch into chicks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x4)
- She has a fertile imagination and writes great stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x5)
- Deserts are not fertile because of little water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x6)
- They soon came to a magnificent marble palace, which was situated in a charming and fertile valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/#x7)

### note

UK said FUR-tile, US FUR-tl. Opposite: infertile, barren. Noun: fertility; verb: fertilise (UK) / fertilize (US); fertiliser feeds soil.

### In the corpora

- [People live near volcanoes because volcanic ash weathers into very fertile soil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/47-famous-eruptions-and-living-with-volcanoes/12/)
- [Flood plains are flat lands beside rivers built up from mud left by floods, and they are very fertile.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/13/)
- [Volcanic ash breaks down into very fertile soil, so many farms lie near volcanoes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/62-volcanoes-and-earthquakes/17/)
- [The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/21/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fertile» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fertile/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.