infertile
adjective /ɪnˈfɜːtaɪl/
/ɪnˈfɜːrtl/
- (of people, animals and plants
) not able to have babies or produce young人或动植物 不育的;不结果实的 - an infertile couple
一对不能生育的夫妇
- an infertile couple
- (of land
) not able to produce good crops土地 贫瘠的 opposite fertile
词源late 16th cent.: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (from ferre ‘to bear’).