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{
"term": "fertile",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "that plants grow well in",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a fertile region/valley"
}
],
"topics": ["Geography", "Farming"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "that can produce babies, young animals, fruit or new plants",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The treatment has been tested on healthy fertile women under the age of 35."
},
{
"text": "women who proved particularly fertile"
}
],
"topics": ["Biology"],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "look", "become"],
"adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "that produces good results; that encourages activity",
"examples": [
{
"text": "a fertile partnership"
},
{
"text": "The region at the time was **fertile ground** for revolutionary movements (= there were the necessary conditions for them to develop easily)."
},
{
"text": "a fertile source of argument/dispute"
},
{
"text": "The fall of the old regime provided fertile ground for opportunism."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "that produces a lot of new ideas",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the product of a **fertile imagination**"
},
{
"text": "the product of a fertile brain/mind"
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːtaɪl/",
"audio": "fe/fertile/fertile__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːrtl/",
"audio": "fe/fertile/fertile__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’."
}