(of people, animals and plants 人或动植物 not able to have babies or produce young 不育的；不结果实的 an infertile couple 一对不能生育的夫妇
(of land 土地 not able to produce good crops 贫瘠的 opposite fertile
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, or from late Latin infertilis, from in- ‘not’ + fertilis (from ferre ‘to bear’).