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nonfertile

nonfertile adjective: not fertile.

Adjective

nonfertile (not comparable)

  1. Not fertile.
    • "It is important to stop with the reputation that arid land is nonfertile, useless land," said Professor Appelbaum, who pioneered the concept of desert aquaculture in Israel in the late 1980s. "2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in New York Times

Origin of nonfertile

From non- + fertile.

Questions about nonfertile

What does nonfertile mean?
Nonfertile means not fertile.
What part of speech is nonfertile?
Nonfertile is an adjective.

Words near nonfertile in the dictionary

  1. nonferritic
  2. nonferroan
  3. nonferromagnetic
  4. nonferrous
  5. nonferruginous
  6. nonfertile
  7. nonfertility
  8. nonfertilizable
  9. nonfertilized
  10. nonfertilizer
  11. nonfestival

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