คำว่า ' sterile ' ( ADJ )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[a.] Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.
[a.] Incapable of reproduction; unfitted for reproduction of offspring; not able to germinate or bear fruit; unfruitful; as, a sterile flower, which bears only stamens.
[a.] Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid.
[a.] Fig.: Barren of ideas; destitute of sentiment; as, a sterile production or author.