How To Use Fertile In A Sentence
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Brigalow vegetation is found to the east, and gidgee (A. cambagei) woodlands or shrublands are scattered across the region on alluvium or other more fertile clay soils.
Eastern Australia mulga shrublands
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Horton looked out over a panorama of fertile valleys and gentle hills.
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In an act of substitution he replaces barren dryness with his fertile fluidity.
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Most soils are dominated by quartz sand, and are acidic, xeric, and have a very limited nutrient supply; they are coarser, drier, less fertile, and less suited to agriculture than the mesic soils of Ecoregion 84d.
Ecoregions of New Jersey (EPA)
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Rather than giving to those countries in most need, O'Neill said, ‘We have an obligation to plant our resources where they will yield growth, rather than squandering precious seeds in unfertile soil.’
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Marginal and fragile lands cleared for export crop production rapidly become infertile and erosion prone.
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This run-off carries fertile matter from soils into the pond.
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The barren stems appear in early summer after the fertile ones.
Secrets of the Soil
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The plants should be grown in a sunny or partially shaded spot and prefer a fertile, moist but well-drained soil.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet today the portmanteau is probably the most fertile vehicle for neologisms.
Times, Sunday Times
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New fields are prepared in the following manner: First a suitable and fertile area is identified after which this area is deforested.
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They look at it as a fertile ground for imagination and storytelling.
Times, Sunday Times
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That district is fertile in wheat.
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A sample consisting of 30 randomly chosen capitula of each order was used to count the number of fertile flowers and achenes per capitulum to calculate percentage fruit set.
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Rising waters would uproot prosperous farmers from the fertile riverbanks, forcing an estimated 100,000 people to move to higher ground where they could no longer plant corn and wheat.
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The tale of the Fisher King involves a king who is lame in one leg (a euphemism for impotency) which in turn causes the land to become barren (infertile).
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On its fertile plateau two springs gave crystal-clear water.
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Fertile soils and spontaneous vegetation, reeking with miasma and overpowering from their odour, we had exchanged for a drouthy wilderness of aloetic and cactaceous plants, where the kolquall and several thorn bushes grew paramount.
How I Found Livingstone
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Central to the Vichy vision, she argues, was the eternal female, ever supportive, fertile, and pure, in a timeless social and moral order where women were mothers, the helpmates of men, and guardians of moral probity.
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Taking a natural view of the country, it is barren, sandy, and mountainous, interspersed with a few green spots, called oases, or made fertile by the inundation of some river in the rainy season.
Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, A Native of Central Africa
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These measures are also recommended in BT Yevamot 65b, where the rabbis point out that a precedent for the practice of divorcing an infertile wife after ten years may be drawn from Genesis 16: 3, since it was only after ten years of living in the land of Canaan that Sarai accepted her infertility and surrogated her servant to bear a child on her behalf.
Infertile Wife in Rabbinic Judaism.
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The female turtles can only lay a maximum of three fertile eggs at a time - three times less than green sea turtles.
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There was also an idea that if we took away half the eggs of an infertile woman we would be disadvantaging her.
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Solum est fertile atque amoenum; amnes aurum, silvae elephantos magna copia producunt:
The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
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Plants grow well in fertile soil.
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It is mostly flat and sandy, with little fertile soil.
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She attributes a major depopulating role to venereal diseases, especially gonorrhoea, which makes women infertile.
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Arab Belly Dance is a religious ceremony from the beginning. It is the expression of nature and human to celebrate fertile women and the mysterious nature.
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And for good reason there is even less hope among the civil societies that have sprouted in country after country, even in the seemingly least fertile of soils, that China will help Africa democratize, which is a key to the continent's future.
Howard W. French: Obama and Africa: The Change We Have Been Waiting For?
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These barriers halted the early flood of Anglo-Saxon invaders to fertile meadowlands and ancient woodlands.
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Yet the impact of war soon made the munitions centres fertile ground for militant trade unionism and socialist agitation.
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Macroalgae benefit from this relationship because fertile drift plants are retained in the photic zone where they continue to contribute to the gene pool.
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Suddenly, we were told, single women everywhere could order made-to-measure designer babies and infertile couples could defy the laws of nature and have healthy children.
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Why did human oestrus fade almost entirely away so that human beings copulate when one partner is not fertile?
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People get less fertile as they get older.
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Although still infertile by world standards, soils here are generally higher in nutrient content than those in western Tasmania, especially the rich soils on dolerite substrate.
Tasmanian temperate forests
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In the forest the woodchopper comes first; on the fertile prairies the granger is the pioneer; but on the long, stretching uplands of the far West it is the men who guard and follow the horned herds that prepare the way for the settlers who come after.
The Cattle Country of the Far West
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Now the ancient passes have opened up and tourism, as well as the fertile land that supports oranges and avocados, is bringing some wealth to the region.
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The plain has coarse, well-drained, generally ferruginous and relatively infertile soils.
Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
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Here's a quote from Barbara Walker's "The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:" "After castrating Set, Horus spread his blood on the fields to render them fertile - the usual fructification-by-male-blood found in the oldst sacrificial Mysteries.
Archive 2008-03-01
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Grant and his staff already have a pledge from the fertile swamp grounds in Terrance Saintil.
Pipelines: Coaches rely on relationships
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Neither are you infertile, as you have already conceived twice in the last two years.
The Sun
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He has constructed a pandaemonium in an upper story of his museum, in which he has congregated all the images of horror that his fertile fancy could devise; dwarfs that by machinery grow into giants before the eyes of the spectator; imps of ebony with eyes of flame; monstrous reptiles devouring youth and beauty; lakes of fire, and mountains of ice; in short, wax, paint and springs have done wonders.
Domestic Manners of the Americans
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There's plenty of technology on the shelf and in the fertile minds of garage-mechanic rocketeers around the world, especially in North America.
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Ukraine could regain its position as a global breadbasket, realising the huge agricultural potential of its famous chernozem (black earth), one of the most fertile soils in the world.
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Topology'there was a fertile field for intellectual riddlesi Shapes that were infinitely distortable without sacrificing their fundamental qualities.
Blue Adept
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An amoral society may have its advantages, but a fertile field for literary greatness is not one of them.
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The dam would flood the Macal River valley - a so-called ‘Biogem’ of rain forest and fertile flood plain that is home to many endangered species like the howler monkey, jaguar, and tapir.
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It is from this very imagination of some fertile minds that various religious texts, rituals and ideas have sprouted.
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Herbs need fertile soil and a sunny sheltered position.
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In the cold dark days before the dawn of the Kinky, its creator (we shall call him Andrew, as that is his name) was but a virgin in the fertile slopes of web design.
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The interior is green and mountainous, a landscape of peaks and fertile valleys with banana plantations and papaya trees.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were lucky in that we could afford to do what most infertile couples cannot.
Times, Sunday Times
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On the southern Dhofar coast, monsoon rains provide a fertile climate in which bananas and citrus trees proliferate.
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like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
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The supposedly sterile farm fish would mimic spawners, and pair up with fertile wildies, negating that year's reproductive cycle.
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The district is fertile of wheat.
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The conception of cornhusking as a sport rather than a chore sprang from the fertile brain of Henry Agard Wallace.
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In the time of Muhammad, Khaibar was a fertile oasis in the Arabian desert.
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The soil proved too infertile to sustain real pasture or arable crops.
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Then on to the Fens - a land of fertile fields and canals and dykes with The Isle of Ely rising majestically from the heart of it all.
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The ramps will be approximately 150 yards away from this hostel, making it a fertile prospect for drug pushers both on site at the hostel and also the ramp site.
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Those in the creative field will make gainful use of their fertile imagination.
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Why did human oestrus fade almost entirely away so that human beings copulate when one partner is not fertile?
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Beside the fertile tract of country above Hit on the Euphrates -- a land which has been identified as the Sumerian Garden of Eden -- stretches
A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden
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Treatment left her infertile.
The Sun
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Known as the breadbasket of Scotland, on account of its fertile arable land, East Lothian is also yielding impressive profits for those lucky enough to own property there.
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Objective:To investigate the testicular blood flow in patients with testicular microlithiasis(TM)and its correlation with the seminal profile in infertile men.
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When you take into consideration the tiny dimensions of the island, its distance from all the centres of civilization, its isolation, the great calamities which have befallen it from hurricane, drought and pestilence, and the way it has overlived them all, there is every justification for the pride and glory of its inhabitants in their fair and fertile islet.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
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Pitino, who is married, was never charged, though he admitted having what he called consensual sex that lasted just 15 seconds, because, he said, she told him she was "extremely fertile.
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By planting a different, male-fertile strain among it, the breeders can collect hybrid seed.
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Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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Both proved fertile forums for disruption within the party, and neither was very effective organizationally.
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At that time organometallic chemistry was in its infancy and it provided a fertile field for a mechanistic chemist.
Robert H. Grubbs - Autobiography
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And some, like me, are what I call "circumstantially infertile.
The Truth About Childless Women
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Due to the colchicine-induced or spontaneous process of chromosome doubling that takes place during the early stages of embryo development, fertile double haploid plants can be easily regenerated within a short period of time.
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That district is fertile in wheat.
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If the bosky scent of dells and the idea of spongy moss against naked flesh gets you going, Mellors and Lady Chatterley-style, there remain a few pockets of urban woodland in London that provide fertile ground for al fresco fun.
Evening Standard - Home
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There was a real sense that we are in the process of building a nation in which new ideas found a fertile environment and were not tied or held back by old fashioned beliefs or customs.
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I've read a fair bit about bigeneric hybrids in which colchicine is used to double up the chromosome number to produce a fertile plant - eg Tritcale.
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Early experiments on mice have already indicated the possibility of turning stem cells into eggs or sperm which could then be used to help infertile couples.
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Chihuahua also contains fertile valleys -- orchards and cropfields that were coaxed from the desert by the persistence of hardworking, warm, and loyal people.
Chihuahua
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Quite unlike today's northern barrens, it combined Arctic tundra with fertile loess soil and low latitudes the Eurasian tundra belt having been pushed far to the south by the Scandinavian icecap.
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In the 1950s Encyclopedia Brittanca, the vast central plateau of Chiapas was cited as among the most fertile and finest land masses in all of Mexico hindered by the almost complete lack of transportation and its remoteness from the rest of the country.
Fifty Years in Southern Mexico
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There are also considerable advantages for the developing world where infertile land could become productive with the potential to improve millions of lives.
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Eastern Europe provided fertile soil for political activists.
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Because the soil is acidic and infertile, some plants are carnivorous, supplementing their diets by trapping small insects.
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On the other hand, the soil is so wonderfully rich and fertile that the study of geoponics and artificial manuring was never thought essential.
The Philippine Islands
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Much of Uzbekistan's landscape consists of deserts, dry steppes, and fertile oases near rivers.
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While the country's fertile highlands yield staple foods like yams and cereal grains, the semi-arid lowlands are largely rocky.
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Science fact is that IVF with donor eggs is a tried and tested way to help infertile couples have children.
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The 20-30 light lavender, bell-shaped flowers are fertile and funnel shaped.
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On the other hand all walnut, pecan, and hickory species are self-fertile and cross-fertile, but may be self-unfruitful because of dichogamy, because they may shed their pollen either before or after the stigmas of the pistillate flowers are receptive to it.
Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948
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This is fertile ground for the public 's discontent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Known as the breadbasket of Scotland, on account of its fertile arable land, East Lothian is also yielding impressive profits for those lucky enough to own property there.
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Tiare and jasmine shouted happy stories across continents, magnolias made mad love as their roots stretched deep into the wet fertile soil, while sequoia and kauri reached with their arms toward heaven.
Time to Rest
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It is probably in Switzerland that his influence was the most fertile: Bodmer borrows from him to fight against Gottsched's academism, and Sulzer takes him as a basis for his theory of sensibility.
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You strike a period where you are richly fertile in terms of ideas and physical activity.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was only a chain of fantom towns and cities, made of painted wood and canvas; but while Catharine was there they were very real, seeming to have solid buildings, magnificent arches, bustling industries, and beautiful stretches of fertile country.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2
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One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
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The sites are usually abandoned, leaving the land infertile and the water polluted.
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Each fertile shoot is composed of two fused bracteoles, which surround the microsporophyll.
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Through marshy headlands rivers and fertile streams trickled, and the wind-swift archer's horses of the loyalist soldiers of Adiabene drank their fill.
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A shallow river had scooped a fertile valley out of the limestone mountains.
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like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
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Nestled within these bleak volcanic highlands are fertile valleys filled with game plentiful enough to satisfy even the appetites of dragons.
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It was white and very short, and apparently consisted entirely of spores arranged in a moniliform manner, like the fertile filaments of a stemless _Penicillium_.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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For the school to flourish and thrive, just like a plant it needs to be placed in fertile and well-prepared soil, be strongly rooted and well-nourished and cared for.
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From Duck River, south, the country is rough, with rocky ranges of hills, which divide the "barrens" from the fertile parts of Middle Tennessee.
The Army of the Cumberland
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In reality, they were vast slum areas without industry or fertile soil for agriculture.
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Vpon the forenamed plaine there were wont to be great store of villages: but for the most part they were all wasted, in regarde of the fertile pastures, that the Tartars might feede their cattel there.
The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253.
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In this country, the plains states and the Southwest are fertile areas for a wide variety of game breeding.
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Some stress the availability of such abundant natural resources as fertile soils and rich supplies of iron, coal, and oil.
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Most men remain fertile into old age.
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Its most distinct characteristic is the furcation of the pinnæ, which are all of the same dimensions, whether sterile or fertile; they are all opposite and closely set along the mid-rib, whereas those of N. davallioides are set much further apart.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
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The irony is that the farming methods causing the drainage will result in their own demise, as they use up the topsoil and render the ground infertile.
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Fertile orchards of oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit abound throughout the island.
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It is not Venice but it has warmth, colour, and views such as could stretch the most infertile imagination.
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In the sunlit river valley the new farms, wrested from the wilderness, and the grid of their fields, flourish in a benign, fertile, mappable landscape.
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Let us take a walk through this field of fertile fungi simply to see what there is by way of anatomy.
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Rainfall is minimal and the land is infertile, marked by erosion and extreme dryness.
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While base 60 seems like the creation of an extraordinarily fertile imagination, sexagesimal has historical pedigree.
HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID
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The test has more than 95 per cent accuracy whether sperm concentration is in the normal range, (above 20 million sperm per millileter), subfertile range (between 2 million and 20 million), or if the subject may be infertile (less than 2 million).
The Times of India
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Sioux County, Iowa, is a fertile, wall-to-wall sea of corn and soybeans.
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This is fertile ground for the public 's discontent.
Times, Sunday Times
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The longer a woman's fertile life (the interval between the menarche and the menopause), the more likely she will develop Parkinson's disease.
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Trees and forests had been cut down to provide fuel and even the most fertile soils were eroding at an alarming rate.
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Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon’s throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah.
Gone with the Wind
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The dogbane, which is perfectly adapted to the butterfly, and dependent upon it for help in producing fertile seed, ruthlessly destroys all poachers that are not big or strong enough to jerk away from its vise-like grasp.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing
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Soils which are rich in nutrients are often termed fertile, but such soils do not usually produce good-quality wine.
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Lying between two rivers the meadow is sometimes flooded in winter which deposits fertile silt and inhibits frost.
A Guide to Britain's Conservation Heritage
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In the centre's old minibus we drove through a shimmering tropical paradise of lush green forests of banana palms, coconut palms and cloves, and a land so fertile you could thrust a stick in it and watch it grow.
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The smell of the putrefying corpses which lay around the walls and in the doura crop, together with the unhealthy climate and the filth of the town, was a fertile source of disease.
The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
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The plenteous natural resources like water and fertile soil and the greenery, keep people satisfied.
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The fashion world is a fecund, fruitful and fertile source of metaphoric phrases.
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Most need full sun and fertile, well-drained sandy loam with a neutral pH and abundant organic matter.
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He started donating in clinics after meeting infertile couples during investigations of his former wife's infertility.
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Indeed, despite their diminutive size, his figurines (they are primarily female) often had hourglass shapes that hinted at plumpness and fertile futures.
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For example, cases are cited by Mr. Darwin, of plants which are more fertile with the pollen of another species than with their own; and there are others, such as certain 'fuci', whose male element will fertilize the ovule of a plant of distinct species, while the males of the latter species are ineffective with the females of the first.
Origin of Species
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One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
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It is still a fertile area to explore and the failure was at least interesting, but nonetheless slightly gutting.
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Herbs need fertile soil and a sunny sheltered position.
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Like downy blue star, this one is native to infertile sandy soils.
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In the medieval period the shire was fertile and prosperous.
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Abundant rainfall and very fertile soils have made Gusiiland one of the most productive agricultural areas in Kenya.
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Any examination of Yali's question must address the phenomena of the Fertile Crescent.
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Time was ineffably precious -- there was every reason to suspect Yankee guile, which is said to be nowhere more fertilely exhibited than in their conduct of the blockade; but it was deemed possible, after careful scrutiny, that the vessel might be on fire.
Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina
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The soil is extremely fertile and produces immense crops when there is enough rainfall, otherwise they are a failure.
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One Ethiopian study showed that heavy clay soils which could not be worked with wooden ploughs became fertile when steel was used.
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She said payments should be reconsidered because a national shortage was driving infertile couples to seek treatment abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
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Caraway can be grown on a variety of soils, although it thrives on fertile, water-retentive soils, it also benefits from deep cultivation.
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The cutting of the wood and the depasturing of the grasses upon the sand-dunes converted them from solid bulwarks against the ocean to loose accumulations of dust, which every sea-breeze drove farther landward, burying, perhaps, fertile soil and choking up water-courses on one side, and exposing the coast to erosion by the sea upon the other.
Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 04 (historical)
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The audiobook begins and ends with the a chorus of chirruping birds, as the reader imagines the reddish brown thick trunks reaching from the fertile earth to the cloudy heavens.
“Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring” by Richard Preston (Random House, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
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"Fertile conservatism" sounds almost like a googlewhack!
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Every year the action of the wind destroyed thousands of hectares of fertile lands, apt for cattle exploitation.
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In both sexual union is easily followed by reproduction, and future heterosexual coupling is envisaged as fertile.
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From southwards the Sun shone on the stony ground; then grew green grass in fertile soil.
Phoenix From the Flame
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Vegetative propagation is used because, except for a few recently discovered fertile clones, garlic flowers are sterile and will not produce true seed.
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Big sheds, walls of wooden crates and brightly painted processing plants dot fertile valleys.
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These now include banana, coconut (Cocos nucifera), sweet potatoes, mango (Mangifera indica), chico (Pouteria sapota), yams, taro, millet, watermelon, and citrus and pineapples on more fertile islands.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests
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King Moshoeshoe I was left with a mountainous, infertile kingdom when most of his arable land was annexed to the Orange Free State in the 1860s.
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The fruits of the earth (though it had long lain fallow, and therefore, one would think, should have been the more fertile) were thin and poor, so that the husbandman had no occasion to hire harvest people to reap his corn, nor teams to carry it home, for he could be scarcely said to have any.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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An unimaginable wealth of fertile topsoil in most parts of the country, this is shallow by Iowa standards, where in some areas the fine, friable soil goes down 20 feet.
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About 80% of healthy, fertile women are able to conceive within one year if they have intercourse regularly without contraception.
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These are fertile times for political absurdists, a fact that's clearly not been lost on them.
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Secondly, Australia is a fragile, arid country with infertile soils over large areas, and sketchy water tables in a lot of areas.
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He also exploited the fertile egg in ways that nobody had ever thought of using it before.
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It grows well in most soils but thrives in a fertile, well-drained soil in full sun.
The Sun
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Fertile flower showing ovuliferous scale with ovules, inner side.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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This is part of a three-year scheme to relocate over 2 million people from the drought-prone areas to the relatively unpopulated fertile lands in the south and west.
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Just as it sounds, a fertile egg has been fertilized by a male chicken and could potentially become a chick.
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The Russian Revolution has proven itself to be fertile ground for allegory and myth.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Pinnæ linear-lanceolate, scythe-shaped, auricled on the upper side, and with bristly teeth; fertile pinnæ contracted toward the top, bearing two rows of sori, which soon become confluent and cover the entire surface.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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The lower pinnæ pinnately parted into three to five divisions, those of the fertile fronds oblong or linear-oblong; those of the sterile, obovate or ovate, crenulate, decurrent at the base.
The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
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Sterile flowers terminal or axillary on wood of the preceding year, 1/2-3/4 inch long, cylindrical; anthers pinkish-red: fertile flowers lateral along previous season's shoots, erect; scales madder-purple, spirally imbricated, broader than long, margin entire or slightly erose.
Handbook of the Trees of New England
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The FDA said the script "misleadingly" overstated "the proven efficacy of Mirena," and failed to mention the possibility that women who take the drug while pregnant may lose a baby or become infertile.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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Making sense of this movie is a feat that requires a nimble mind and a fertile imagination.
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Ground ivy and poison ivy grow in shade, while dead nettle, dandelions, and clover thrive in fertile soil.
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In this scenario, the earth simply provided fertile ground for extraterrestrial imports.
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like a fertile ground for learning, as long as hard work, there will be many of the fruit; if lazy work, when other people jump when the harvest dance, you have a regret.
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Microspores cultured in vitro in a rich medium develop into mature pollen grains, which are fertile upon pollination in vivo.
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It was known for its fertile land and abundance of food, was flanked by a wide canal that gave it protection from the Burmese camp at Viseschaicharn, and could be reinforced from Suphanburi.
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The test has more than 95% accuracy whether sperm concentration is in the normal range, (above 20 million sperm per millileter), subfertile range (between 2 million and 20 million), or if the subject may be infertile (less than 2 million).
The Times of India
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According to one survey, one woman in eight is infertile.
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As a flat, infertile protectorate of Britain, isolated at the northern fringe of the Leeward chain, you might expect it to offer nothing to sybarites, particularly in matters of food.
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Zhao L, Reim K, Miller DJ (2008) Complexin-I-deficient sperm are subfertile due to a defect in zona pellucida penetration.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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For millions of years of human evolution, male eroticism has focused on fertile women.
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They will grow well in any sunny garden on all reasonably fertile soils.
Times, Sunday Times
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Four miles west of the town the fertile limestone _carse_ swells into the shady hills, clad largely with pine, that form the long glacis of the Alleghanies.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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As the oil is sucked from the ground, the earth itself subsides, and the oily waters of the gulf of Guinea seep deeper inland, poisoning the heart of these once fertile swamps.
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A large interior plateau contains dense forests, thousands of lakes and peat bogs, and rocky infertile soils associated with a glacially modified landscape with numerous drumlins and eskers.
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Yellowlegs, yelper, willet, marlin, dough bird, stilt, and avocet are often common, but they do not begin to be as plentiful as they are in the more fertile lands to the eastward, and the ranchmen never shoot at them or follow them as game birds.
II. Waferfowl
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Our sentiments of love, hate, fear, anxiety, are each one of them the fertile source of whole series of illustrative dreams.
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The fan-shaped Nile delta in the north, where the climate is wetter, is very fertile.
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That limbo was fertile ground for creating a ‘state of moral schizophrenia’ which turned out to be more of a mental block than a curable condition.
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Lacecap hydrangeas bear flat round flowerheads with centers of fertile flowers surrounded by outer rings of sterile flowers.
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When irrigated loess can be very fertile and consequently high yields can be obtained from crops grown on loess deposits.
Geography Basic Facts
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It has been estimated that one in eight couples is infertile.
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Aristotle was charged with preferring flimsy theories and sterile syllogisms to the solid, fertile facts.
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In addition, women often send subtle (and subconscious) come-hither cues at the most fertile time of the month.
