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Webster 1828 Edition
Steril
STERIL
, STERILE,Adj.
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.