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capable of producing abundant growth or offspring; productive
The valley's fertile soil yields three harvests a year.
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From Old French fertile, from Latin fertilis ('fruitful, productive'), from ferre ('to bear, carry'), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- ('to bear, carry').
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