STERIL, STERILE, a. [L.] 1. Barren; unfruitful; not fertile; producing little or no crop; as sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.2. Barren; producing no young.3. Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment, as a sterile production or author.Sterile flower, in botany, is a term given by Tournefort to the male flower, or that which bears only stamens.
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