Fertile

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From Middle English, from Middle French fertile, from Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis (“fruitful, fertile”), from ferō (“to bear, carry”).

Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive. Taking advantage of the river's fertile floodplain, residents of the town of Skardu cultivate apricot, apple, and peach orchards in the sandy soil.
figuratively Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful. Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor. There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.