infertile

adjective/ɪnˈfɜrtəl/

Frequency rank: #14,901 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)

Meaning

Not capable of producing crops, plants, or offspring; barren.

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Example sentence

The farmers were disappointed to discover that the soil in that region was infertile.

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