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| chigoe |
a kind of tropical flea, the fertile female of which lives parasitically in the skin of humans and other animals, where she swells with eggs and causes severe irritation and often infection. |
| desertification |
the transformation of fertile land to desert by natural causes, esp. drought, or through human activity such as deforestation, overgrazing, and the like. |
| fat |
bountiful; fertile. [1/10 definitions] |
| fecund |
capable of producing abundant fruit or offspring; fruitful; fertile. [1/2 definitions] |
| fertility |
the quality or state of being fertile. |
| Goshen |
according to the Old Testament, the fertile land of the Israelites in Egypt that was spared from the last of the seven plagues visited on that country. [1/2 definitions] |
| hungry |
lacking in nutrients; not fertile; barren. [1/5 definitions] |
| impregnate |
to make (a female animal or human) pregnant, or to make (an egg) fertile. [1/2 definitions] |
| infertile |
of land, not fertile or productive; barren. [1/2 definitions] |
| prairie |
an expansive area of fertile, level, or rolling grassland, esp. the central North American plain. |
| pregnant |
fertile or creative. [1/4 definitions] |
| prolific |
producing young or new growth in abundance; fertile. [1/2 definitions] |
| soil conservation |
a method, such as crop rotation or contour farming, to protect fertile topsoil from erosion or other damage. |
| unfertile |
combined form of fertile. |
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