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sterile 1. unable to produce offspring; infertile 2. free from living, esp pathogenic, microorganisms; aseptic 3. (of plants or their parts) not producing or bearing seeds, fruit, spores, stamens, or pistils 4. Economics US (of gold) not being used to support credit creation or an increased money supply How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry? She is a sterile flower, you know- like some strawberry blossoms. It stands a little way off the loneliest reach of the Marshall and Harriston road, in an opening which was once a farm and is still disfigured with strips of rotting fence and half covered with brambles overrunning a stony and sterile soil long unacquainted with the plow. |
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