Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fertile

Fertile (? o?; 277) , adjective

[Latin fertilis, from ferre to bear, produce: compare French fertile. See Bear to support.]

1.
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
Though he in a fertile climate dwell. — Shakespeare
2.
(a) (Botany) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
(b)
(Botany) Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.
3.
produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
Henceforth, my early care... Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden ease Of thy full branches. — Milton