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Meanings of infertile in English
Portuguese
improdutivo Spanish
estéril Incapable of reproducing.
Synonyms
Examples for "sterile"
Examples for "sterile"
1
A successful SIT programme requires competitive sterile males of high biological quality.
2
This sterile situation has now been transformed by Mr McDowell's brave initiative.
3
Within a year, every Bajoran on the planet will be made sterile.
4
They want mystery and romance, not sterile common sense or conventional wisdom.
5
In the sterile Denali facilities, hygiene was second nature to all researchers.
1
The capital is girt by a belt of uncultivated, but not unfertile land.
2
The eggs were a splendid lot; not one of them unfertile.'
3
Fortunately, I am not unfertile in expedients.
4
The youthful gallant, who had certain fears about watering this fair, unfertile plain, was reassured by this speech.
5
It is the enclosure nearest to the cottage, and seems now to be a pasture, and a rather remarkably unfertile one.
Usage of infertile in English
1
Some say the land is not enough, too far away or infertile.
2
The implications for treatment and surveillance of infertile men require further study.
3
I felt I was planting my seed in infertile ground, he said.
4
Eggs taken from even elderly or infertile SWR have successfully produced embryos.
5
They were herdsmen, scraping out a living on rocky and infertile land.
6
Testicular microlithiasis associated with seminoma was found in a 32-year-old infertile man.
7
Risk estimates were higher if the analysis was restricted to primary infertile men.
8
Preservation of the ovary is highly important in young infertile women.
9
In humans, for example, perhaps 10 percent of couples are infertile.
10
Five of the infertile males carried variant versions of the gene, named USP9Y.
11
Their increase was very slow, for they were an infertile and inflexible race.
12
Although otherwise infertile, this land is well adapted for the pasture of cattle.
13
As already stated, the infertile ovum, or egg, is produced by the woman.
14
Methods: A total of 120 semen samples collected from infertile men were investigated.
15
Male mice in which Nell2 had been knocked out were infertile.
16
The second found that a cancer drug helped some infertile men have children.
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common