Definition of sterile

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Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..

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Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility..
Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land..
Aborted :: Aborted (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches..
Sterility :: Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author..
Inantherate :: Inantherate (a.) Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.
Barren :: Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..
Unfruitful :: Unfruitful (a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort..
Effete :: Effete (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile..
Sterilization :: Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores..
Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..
Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..
Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..
Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc..
Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid..
Worker :: Worker (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White..
Infertile :: Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil..
Lepal :: Lepal (n.) A sterile transformed stamen.
Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..
Sterilized :: Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile..
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