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Unfertile

adjective
1.
Incapable of reproducing.  Synonyms: infertile, sterile.






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"Unfertile" Quotes from Famous Books



... is of the first importance, because not only does it saturate the land with water,—but this water, being salt, renders it unfertile for the plants of ordinary cultivation, and causes it to produce others which are of little, or ...
— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

... returning from Chicago, where the former had been purchasing machinery for the new company, of which he was chief engineer. Time had done well for them and for St. Marys. The six months' physical inactivity of the works were spent wisely, if ruthlessly, in weeding out unfertile growths and concentrating resources on those which were sound and promising. There was a sharp distinction between this deliberate policy and the ...
— The Rapids • Alan Sullivan

... in a vegetarian dietary, and as a rule, vegetarians use them. Eggs, with the exception of such as are unfertile, are of course alive; but they have no conscious existence, and cannot be said to suffer any pain on being killed and eaten. An objection to their use as food is, that on an egg and poultry farm, the superfluous male birds are killed, and as the hens become unprofitable layers they are also killed. ...
— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan



Words linked to "Unfertile" :   fertility, sterilised, unfertilized, barren, unfertilised, sterilized, fecundity, impotent, fertile, unproductive, unfruitful, sterile, unimpregnated



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