fertility

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year
noun the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
noun the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth

From Middle French fertilité, from Latin fertilitās, equivalent to fertile + -ity.

He had a frog's fertility. — Life on the Mississippi, Mark Twain
Occasionally side views of great fertility opened upon us. — Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber : $b or, The influence of Romanism on trade, justice, and knowledge, J. A. (James Aitken) Wylie
The group before him knew nothing of fertility or open country. — The Lost Prince, Frances Hodgson Burnett

birthrate, birth rate, fertility rate, natality

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