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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..

Inantherate :: Inantherate (a.) Not bearing anthers; -- said of sterile stamens.

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

Impotent :: Impotent (a.) Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren..

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

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

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

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..

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..

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..

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

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens..

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..

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

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..

Aborted :: Aborted (a.) Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches..

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