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   infertile

   /ɪnˈfəːtʌɪl/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person, animal, or plant) unable to reproduce itself; unable to have young: "infertile couples are offered specialist advice" Similar sterilebarrenchildlessinfecundOpposite fertile
   • ▪ (of land) unable to sustain crops or vegetation: "barren and infertile soils" Similar barrennon-fertileunfruitfulunproductivenon-productiveuncultivatablelifelesssterileimpoverishedaridrare:unfructuousOpposite fertile

   Word Origin late 16th century: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (see fertile).

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