adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fertile plain
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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 )
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She had a fertile imagination and a great sense of humour.
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With your vivid imagination, you should write a book.
fertile
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This earth is not fertile enough to produce crops.
fertile/rich (= good for growing crops )
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The land near the river is very fertile.
good/rich/fertile (= good for growing plants )
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The fertile soil produces delicious wines.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Advertising proved a more fertile category, with decisions which set heads nodding and shaking in equal measure.
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But the coaching ground in New Zealand is probably more fertile .
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Why are Brown Earths more fertile for crops?
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Perhaps they were simply more healthy or more fertile .
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Yet again it is the summer months that look the most fertile .
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Though whites make up only 17 percent of the population, they control the most fertile farming areas.
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Yet the most sweeping changes and the most fertile inventions have in the last decade come from New York.
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In fact, Dunrossness has long been considered to be the most fertile and agriculturally productive area in the whole of Shetland.
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They are not concerned with particular local food requirements and they usually control the most fertile land for cash cropping.
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At the same time, in these places of instability and growth, the soil is most fertile .
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Shakespeare has the most fertile imagination of all poets and is more than Homer's equal.
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As a result Camberwell was at this time one of the most fertile art schools in Britain.
very
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Male speaker Richard has a very fertile mind.
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And the ground remains very fertile for a good sales team to farm.
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It's the product of a very fertile mind.
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The area is not very fertile , and so has never been cleared for cultivation.
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The Cravens were a prolific lot, wretchedly poor but very fertile .
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Land is often not very fertile in the controlled zones and there is always the problem of military incursions or air raids.
■ NOUN
area
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Farmers, especially in the more fertile areas have resisted efforts to place controls on their practices.
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In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.
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Las Vegas, capital of sin, hope and desperation in this country, is a fertile area for passengers.
ground
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I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.
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Writers had not always found Black Mountain particularly fertile ground .
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His inspiration fell on fertile ground , prepared by endless repetition.
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Eller apparently wants access to the fertile ground of the I-19 corridor for his unsightly behemoths.
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This is surely fertile ground for experimentation.
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This is fertile ground for disequilibration of individuals' reasoning.
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They are fertile ground for the emergence of an explicitly right-wing political force.
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That was the fertile ground that produced the center.
imagination
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Even now no-one seems quite certain whether this was a fact, a half-fact or the product of a fertile imagination .
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And like her own fertile imagination , it shelters any and all images that happen to drift into its confines.
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Shakespeare has the most fertile imagination of all poets and is more than Homer's equal.
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Artisans needed more than just fertile imaginations and a soft touch with a trowel to bring their work to life.
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They come from Hollywood, they have fertile imaginations .
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He is said to have been convivial, widely knowledgeable, with a fertile imagination and a whimsical sense of humour.
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The twentieth century has witnessed the realisation of these objectives, perhaps even beyond the horizons of Paracelsus's fertile imagination .
land
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They are not concerned with particular local food requirements and they usually control the most fertile land for cash cropping.
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For instance, fertile land and buckets of rain lead Iowans to plant corn.
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Huge expanses of fertile land and unlimited supplies of water give it enormous productive potential.
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He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar.
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Access to the more fertile land taken over by foreign-owned companies?
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The most fertile land lay towards Sikyon.
mind
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Male speaker Richard has a very fertile mind .
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It's the product of a very fertile mind .
plain
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None knows like him to strew the wheaten Grain, Or drive the Plough-share o'er the fertile Plain .
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When it dried up, the salts sank as the rains washed top soil down to create fertile plains .
soil
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This new and fertile soil rapidly developed her character and painting style.
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These tender plants like a moist, well-draining and fertile soil .
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Quince C Semi-dwarfing, used for strong-growing types, needs fertile soil .
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It appreciates an acidic, fertile soil that drains well.
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Agriculture flourished on the fertile soils of Kosovo and Metohija.
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And it is fertile soil for a severe economic downturn in the post-cold war world economy.
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Once you get a fertile soil , the bully boys tend to take over and only about half a dozen plants flourish.
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They do best in a deep, fertile soil that is well drained, but does not seriously dry out.
valley
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A land of rich fertile valleys that reach up to touch the edge of wild moorland.
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A shallow river had scooped a fertile valley out of the limestone mountains.
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The almond trees grow in the fertile valleys of California, neatly planted in straight lines.
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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
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His inspiration fell on fertile ground , prepared by endless repetition.
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On their arrival at the breeding grounds , male pied flycatchers find a suitable nesting site.
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The position required no athletic ability, but traditionally has served as a proving ground for Mississippi politicians.
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The race, the breeding ground , might be missed, both in sporting and traditional terms, should it cease.
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The unhygienic conditions of a stable were a breeding ground for all manner of disease and bacteria hazardous to a newborn.
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There are 22 events per year, and tracks range from Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground tote Mans.
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Where scum settles on wetted surfaces in kitchens, it creates an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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fertile farmland
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Farmers left the rocky hills of New England for the fertile plains of the Middle West.
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The valley was fertile , and a good crop was a near certainty.
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This shrub likes sun and water as well as a fertile well-drained soil.
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While most men remain fertile into old age, women do not.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For instance, fertile land and buckets of rain lead Iowans to plant corn.
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He brought the fertile blackness of the earth with him.
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I know that negotiations do not only constitute a bargaining process, but also serve as fertile ground for creativity.
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In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.
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Journey north through the fertile Kikuyu heartland to Nyeri where a buffet lunch will be served at the Outspan Hotel.
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That is why science has been so fertile .
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That period had made the city a fertile news ground for freelancers such as myself.
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This was a fertile source of incomprehension between him and Ellen.