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Aborted :: Aborted (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches..

Sterility :: Sterility (n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.

Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..

Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..

Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land..

Lepal :: Lepal (n.) A sterile transformed stamen.

Sterility :: Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..

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..

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..

Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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..

Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

Sterilized :: Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile..

Infertile :: Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil..

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.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid..

Sterilization :: Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores..

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..

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