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fertility

/fer-til-i-tee/US // fərˈtɪl ɪ ti //UK // (fɜːˈtɪlɪtɪ) //

生育率,生育能力,生育力,生殖力

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or quality of being fertile.
    • : Biology. the ability to produce offspring; power of reproduction: the amazing fertility of rabbits.
    • : the birthrate of a population.
    • : the capacity to supply nutrients in proper amounts for plant growth when other factors are favorable.

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Examples

  • Based on this scant evidence, Mellaart announced that the people of Çatalhöyük were a matriarchy that worshipped a fertility goddess.

  • Last time around, we’d had some help from a fertility clinic.

  • So, the combination of those two trends, those are my best guesses as to why we’ve seen fertility declining in most high-income countries.

  • When the coronavirus pandemic hit, fertility clinics braced themselves for a downturn.

  • Whitlock details three local cases in which women discovered their biological fathers were actually the fertility doctors their families had turned to for help conceiving.

  • Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

  • Six months of sterility results, after which normal fertility returns.

  • In Wicca, the female goddess is represented by the Moon, a symbol of Mother Earth and fertility.

  • Women who were active most days were more than three times more likely to have fertility problems than inactive women.

  • A Norwegian population-based survey of nearly 4,000 women under 45 found a clear link between exercise intensity and fertility.

  • His banks were teeming with happy dusky figures and the smiling irrigated land was bright with fertility.

  • There is a great variety of soils found here, and most of them have a fair degree of plant fertility.

  • But in Virginia it was grown without interruption or alternation, and the plantations rapidly deteriorated in fertility.

  • For this reason soils produced from the syenitic rocks are frequently possessed of considerable fertility.

  • The forms of combination most favourable to fertility is a subject on which our information is at present comparatively limited.

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