Antonym: sterility. Similar words: fertility rate, fertilize, utility, ability, agility, facility, viability, pertinacity. Meaning: [fə(r)'tɪlətɪ] n. 1. the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year 2. the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring 3. the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth.
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91. Educated women had lower fertility rates, and the children they did have were significantly healthier.
92. Men, in all cultures, desire fertility in women, which is signified by youth and beauty.
93. The pine cone appeared on many ancient amulets and was regarded as a symbol of fertility.
94. El was usually depicted as a seated figure wearing bull's horns, the symbol of strength and fertility.
95. Synthetic fertilisers and pesticides are banned and soil fertility and pest control is achieved through crop rotation and mixed farming systems.
96. Black symbolises the people, green the fertility of the land, and gold the mineral wealth from beneath the soil.
97. Of course, if we do this two spits deep, so much deeper do we increase the potential for fertility.
98. She became pregnant after taking fertility drugs, which caused her to produce a number of eggs.
99. A: I agree that Resolve offers very important assistance to couples and individuals involved in fertility treatments.
100. If you plan to keep livestock, the security of fences and gates must go hand in hand with fertility.
101. In vitro fertilization can restore fertility to women who ovulate but can not conceive because their Fallopian tubes are blocked.
102. Body fat distribution in women of reproductive age seems to have more impact on fertility than age or obesity.
103. For them the dangers of infertility - real or imagined - may far outweigh the dangers of fertility.
104. Vehicles and people both were festooned with banana leaves-symbol of rejoicing and fertility, I later learned.
105. Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.
106. Upon learning that the rice thrown at newlyweds was meant to symbolize fertility, my fa-ther banned it from the wedding.
107. But as Medawar first pointed out(sentencedict.com), the natural selection that maintains survival and fertility becomes weaker through the life history.
108. Originally he would have symbolised vegetative fertility, and possibly even the sacrificial May King.
109. To bridge the gap to replacement fertility, it will be necessary to reduce the demand for large families.
110. Therapeutic counselling for long-term problems - these may be triggered by the fertility problem and sometimes need outside referral to marital therapy.
111. But the plot fertility would become exhausted and crops would be poorer.
112. Most of the country's fertility clinics were listed, although none of the catalogues was up to date.
113. Those assembled along the hill lines are keeping alive one of the world's most ancient and wide spread fertility rites. Sentencedict.com
114. The relationship between fertility rates and mortality rates has created a population structure which has varied substantially during the period in question.
115. The aim is to discover how far mutation has depressed survival and fertility below their optimal values.
116. Their income relative to their parents will be correspondingly higher, their fertility will be high, and so the cycle will continue.
117. Where education reduces fertility, which is nearly everywhere, the trigger point varies according to cultural influences.
118. Biology even promised to control world fertility with the Pill.
119. The strongest influence religion has on slowing the transition to low fertility is among poor and uneducated women in rural areas.
120. In 1911 the fertility census recorded that textile workers actually married later.
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