{
    "term": "fertile",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "that plants grow well in",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fertile region/valley"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Geography", "Farming"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "that can produce babies, young animals, fruit or new plants",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The treatment has been tested on healthy fertile women under the age of 35."
                },
                {
                    "text": "women who proved particularly fertile"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Biology"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "look", "become"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "that produces good results; that encourages activity",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a fertile partnership"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The region at the time was **fertile ground** for revolutionary movements (= there were the necessary conditions for them to develop easily)."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a fertile source of argument/dispute"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fall of the old regime provided fertile ground for opportunism."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "that produces a lot of new ideas",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the product of a **fertile imagination**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the product of a fertile brain/mind"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːtaɪl/",
                "audio": "fe/fertile/fertile__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈfɜːrtl/",
                "audio": "fe/fertile/fertile__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via French from Latin fertilis, from ferre ‘to bear’."
}