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infertile adjective [ ɪnˈfəːtʌɪl ]

• (of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young.
• "infertile couples are offered specialist advice"
Similar: sterile, barren, childless, infecund,
Opposite: fertile,
Origin: late 16th century: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (see fertile).


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