unfertile

Example Sentences

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“The octopus behaves the same way whether or not the eggs are fertile, and female octopus senescing while caring for unfertile eggs is a situation that also naturally occurs in the wild,” Jaros said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

“We’ve been in the unfertile field,” VanDerveer said.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021

Work with tribes and urban native communities to address the negative impacts of land theft and forced removals to unfertile areas that are today’s food deserts.

From Washington Post • Jul. 15, 2021

In Ewing, he was an outcast in a community of poor whites who were themselves outcasts of a sort, living on unfertile farmland.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

Eggs, with the exception of such as are unfertile, are of course alive; but they have no conscious existence, and cannot be said to suffer any pain on being killed and eaten.

From The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition by Duncan, A. W.