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Deforestation vs Fertile - What's the difference?

deforestation | fertile |

As a noun deforestation

is deforestation.

As an adjective fertile is

(of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive.

deforestation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of destroying a forest and replacing it with something else, especially by an agricultural system.
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  • , title=Internal Combustion , chapter=2 citation , passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}

    Antonyms

    * afforestation * reforestation

    fertile

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive
  • (biology) capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful
  • (biology) capable of developing past the egg stage
  • (of an imagination etc) productive or prolific
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Antonyms

    * barren * infertile