FERTILITY

Fertility

Fertility is the natural capability to produce offspring. As a measure, "fertility rate" is the number of offspring born per mating pair, individual or population. Fertility differs from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction . A lack of fertility is infertility while a lack of fecundity would be called sterility.

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fertility

Noun

  1. The condition, or the degree, of being fertile.
    Muckspreading increases the fertility of the soil.
  2. The birthrate of a population; the number of live births per 1000 people per year.


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