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fertility

[fer-til-i-tee]

noun

  1. the state or quality of being fertile.

  2. Biology.the ability to produce offspring; power of reproduction.

    the amazing fertility of rabbits.

  3. the birthrate of a population.

  4. (of soil) the capacity to supply nutrients in proper amounts for plant growth when other factors are favorable.



fertility

/ ɜːˈɪɪɪ /

noun

  1. the ability to produce offspring, esp abundantly

  2. the state or quality of being fertile

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • nonfertility noun
  • overfertility noun
  • prefertility noun
  • unfertility noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fertility1

1375–1425; late Middle English fertilite (< Middle French ) < Latin ڱپ. See fertile, -ity
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Players who undergo fertility treatment will be able to use their special ranking to enter up to three tournaments within 10 weeks of their return.

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"Calling this a crisis, saying it's real. That's a shift I think," says demographer Anna Rotkirch, who has researched fertility intentions in Europe and advises the Finnish government on population policy.

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Attacks continued in May with the apparent car bombing of a fertility clinic in California.

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He is unable to provide an exact date or time and bases this estimate on the last time a member of staff saw the fertility centre operational.

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In 2024, the country's fertility rate, or the average number of babies a woman is expected to have in her lifetime, was at 0.75.

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