(of people, animals and plants 人或動植物 not able to have babies or produce young 不育的；不結果實的 an infertile couple 一對不能生育的夫婦
(of land 土地 not able to produce good crops 貧瘠的 opposite fertile
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (from ferre ‘to bear’).