fertile

«fertile» in Mova's school dictionary: good for growing plants and crops — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (fertile; more fertile, most fertile)

meaning for a pupil

1) Fertile land or soil is good for growing plants and crops. tree →

2) A fertile animal or person can have babies; a fertile seed or egg can grow. tree →

3) A fertile imagination or mind has lots of new ideas. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons fertile soil near rivers and volcanoes helps farming. In science fertile eggs can hatch. Phrases: «fertile soil», «fertile land», «a fertile imagination», «the Fertile Crescent».

examples

• The river leaves fertile soil on the fields. tree →
• Farmers grow lots of wheat on fertile land. tree →
• Volcanic soil is very fertile. tree →
• Only fertile eggs can hatch into chicks. tree →
• She has a fertile imagination and writes great stories. tree →
• Deserts are not fertile because of little water. tree →
• They soon came to a magnificent marble palace, which was situated in a charming and fertile valley. tree →

note

UK said FUR-tile, US FUR-tl. Opposite: infertile, barren. Noun: fertility; verb: fertilise (UK) / fertilize (US); fertiliser feeds soil.

In the corpora

• People live near volcanoes because volcanic ash weathers into very fertile soil.
• Flood plains are flat lands beside rivers built up from mud left by floods, and they are very fertile.
• Volcanic ash breaks down into very fertile soil, so many farms lie near volcanoes.
• The steppes of Ukraine have very fertile black soil called chernozem.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fertile» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.