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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

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No references found			Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry? Fables by Aesop View in context She is a sterile flower, you know- like some strawberry blossoms. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context 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. Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context			stereoscopic system Stereoscopic Television stereoscopic vision stereoscopy stereoselective reaction stereoselectivity stereospecific polymer Stereospecific Polymerization stereospecific synthesis stereospecificity Stereospondyli Stereotaxic Technique stereotaxis stereotomy stereotropism Stereotype Stereotype, Dynamic Stereotypy sterhydraulic steric anomaly steric effect Steric Hindrance stericooling Sterid Sterigma sterile sterile distribution sterile field Sterile Flower Sterility Sterilization sterilizer Sterkfontein Sterlegov, Dmitrii Sterlegov, Dmitrii Vasilevich Sterlet Sterling Sterling County Sterling Forest State Park Sterling Heights sterling silver Sterling Software Sterling Software, Inc. Sterling State Park Sterling, Bruce Sterlitamak Stern stern attack stern end bulb stern frame stern layer			Steric effects Steric hindrance sterical sterical sterically sterically Sterically-Hindered Epoxides Dieldrin stericooling Sterics Sterics Stericycle, Inc. Sterid sterigma sterigma Sterigmanthe Sterigmanthe Sterigmanthe sterigmata sterigmata sterigmatic sterigmatic Sterigmatocystin Steril Steril Steril Steril sterilant sterilant sterilants sterilants sterile Sterile A and HEAT Sterile Access System Sterile Alpha Motif Sterile Aqueous Solution Sterile Barrier Association Sterile Barrier System sterile cyst sterile cyst sterile cyst Sterile Distilled Water sterile distribution sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic folliculitis sterile eosinophilic pustulosis sterile field sterile field sterile field sterile field Sterile Fire Support Overlay Sterile Flower sterile infection sterile infiltrates sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method sterile insect release method Sterile insect technique Sterile Investment

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