Lucrative vs Fertile - What's the difference?
lucrative | fertile | Related terms |
Producing a surplus; profitable.
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, title= (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
Lucrative is a related term of fertile.
As adjectives the difference between lucrative and fertile
is that lucrative is producing a surplus; profitable while fertile is (of land etc) capable of growing abundant crops; productive.lucrative
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