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Worker :: Worker (n.) One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants, bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having the sexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, under White..

Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc..

Sterility :: Sterility (n.) The quality or condition of being sterile.

Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility..

Poor :: Poor (superl.) Destitute of fertility; exhausted; barren; sterile; -- said of land; as, poor soil..

Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.

Lepal :: Lepal (n.) A sterile transformed stamen.

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year..

Effete :: Effete (a.) No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile..

Sterility :: Sterile (a.) Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author..

Unfruitful :: Unfruitful (a.) Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort..

Barren :: Barren (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile..

Dysgenesis :: Dysgenesis (n.) A condition of not generating or breeding freely; infertility; a form homogenesis in which the hybrids are sterile among themselves, but are fertile with members of either parent race..

Sterilized :: Sterilization (n.) The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile..

Sterilization :: Sterility (n.) Quality of being sterile; infecundity; also, the state of being free from germs or spores..

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid..

Infertile :: Infertile (a.) Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil..

Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land..

Abort :: Abort (v. i.) To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile..

Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

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