FERTILE


Meaning of FERTILE in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a fertile plain

The rains washed soil down to create fertile plains.

a vivid/fertile imagination (= an ability to think of a lot of ideas and things that could happen )

She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.

With your vivid imagination, you should write a book.

fertile

This earth is not fertile enough to produce crops.

fertile/rich (= good for growing crops )

The land near the river is very fertile.

good/rich/fertile (= good for growing plants )

The fertile soil produces delicious wines.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

Advertising proved a more fertile category, with decisions which set heads nodding and shaking in equal measure.

But the coaching ground in New Zealand is probably more fertile .

Why are Brown Earths more fertile for crops?

Perhaps they were simply more healthy or more fertile .

most

Yet again it is the summer months that look the most fertile .

Though whites make up only 17 percent of the population, they control the most fertile farming areas.

Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York.

In fact, Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland.

They are not concerned with particular local food requirements and they usually control the most fertile land for cash cropping.

At the same time, in these places of instability and growth, the soil is most fertile .

Shakespeare has the most fertile imagination of all poets and is more than Homer's equal.

As a result Camberwell was at this time one of the most fertile art schools in Britain.

very

Male speaker Richard has a very fertile mind.

And the ground remains very fertile for a good sales team to farm.

It's the product of a very fertile mind.

The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation.

The Cravens were a prolific lot, wretchedly poor but very fertile .

Land is often not very fertile in the controlled zones and there is always the problem of military incursions or air raids.

■ NOUN

area

Farmers, especially in the more fertile areas have resisted efforts to place controls on their practices.

In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.

Las Vegas, capital of sin, hope and desperation in this country, is a fertile area for passengers.

ground

I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.

Writers had not always found Black Mountain particularly fertile ground .

His inspiration fell on fertile ground , prepared by endless repetition.

Eller apparently wants access to the fertile ground of the I-19 corridor for his unsightly behemoths.

This is surely fertile ground for experimentation.

This is fertile ground for disequilibration of individuals' reasoning.

They are fertile ground for the emergence of an explicitly right-wing political force.

That was the fertile ground that produced the center.

imagination

Even now no-one seems quite certain whether this was a fact, a half-fact or the product of a fertile imagination .

And like her own fertile imagination , it shelters any and all images that happen to drift into its confines.

Shakespeare has the most fertile imagination of all poets and is more than Homer's equal.

Artisans needed more than just fertile imaginations and a soft touch with a trowel to bring their work to life.

They come from Hollywood, they have fertile imaginations .

He is said to have been convivial, widely knowledgeable, with a fertile imagination and a whimsical sense of humour.

The twentieth century has witnessed the realisation of these objectives, perhaps even beyond the horizons of Paracelsus's fertile imagination .

land

They are not concerned with particular local food requirements and they usually control the most fertile land for cash cropping.

For instance, fertile land and buckets of rain lead Iowans to plant corn.

Huge expanses of fertile land and unlimited supplies of water give it enormous productive potential.

He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar.

Access to the more fertile land taken over by foreign-owned companies?

The most fertile land lay towards Sikyon.

mind

Male speaker Richard has a very fertile mind .

It's the product of a very fertile mind .

plain

None knows like him to strew the wheaten Grain, Or drive the Plough-share o'er the fertile Plain .

When it dried up, the salts sank as the rains washed top soil down to create fertile plains .

soil

This new and fertile soil rapidly developed her character and painting style.

These tender plants like a moist, well-draining and fertile soil .

Quince C Semi-dwarfing, used for strong-growing types, needs fertile soil .

It appreciates an acidic, fertile soil that drains well.

Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija.

And it is fertile soil for a severe economic downturn in the post-cold war world economy.

Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish.

They do best in a deep, fertile soil that is well drained, but does not seriously dry out.

valley

A land of rich fertile valleys that reach up to touch the edge of wild moorland.

A shallow river had scooped a fertile valley out of the limestone mountains.

The almond trees grow in the fertile valleys of California, neatly planted in straight lines.

Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

breeding/fertile/proving ground

His inspiration fell on fertile ground , prepared by endless repetition.

On their arrival at the breeding grounds , male pied flycatchers find a suitable nesting site.

The position required no athletic ability, but traditionally has served as a proving ground for Mississippi politicians.

The race, the breeding ground , might be missed, both in sporting and traditional terms, should it cease.

The unhygienic conditions of a stable were a breeding ground for all manner of disease and bacteria hazardous to a newborn.

There are 22 events per year, and tracks range from Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground tote Mans.

Where scum settles on wetted surfaces in kitchens, it creates an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

fertile farmland

Farmers left the rocky hills of New England for the fertile plains of the Middle West.

The valley was fertile , and a good crop was a near certainty.

This shrub likes sun and water as well as a fertile well-drained soil.

While most men remain fertile into old age, women do not.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

For instance, fertile land and buckets of rain lead Iowans to plant corn.

He brought the fertile blackness of the earth with him.

I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.

In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.

Journey north through the fertile Kikuyu heartland to Nyeri where a buffet lunch will be served at the Outspan Hotel.

That is why science has been so fertile .

That period had made the city a fertile news ground for freelancers such as myself.

This was a fertile source of incomprehension between him and Ellen.

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