infertile
adjective/ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl/
/ɪnˈfɜːrtl/
- (of people, animals and plants) not able to have babies or produce young
- an infertile couple
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- (of land) not able to produce good crops opposite fertile
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (from ferre ‘to bear’).
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