sterility

英 [stə'rɪləti] 美 [stə'rɪləti]

• n. 不生育；贫瘠

英英释义

Noun:

1. (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms

2. the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. Planetary scientists have also long blamed Venus's sterility on the lack of an internal magnetic field.
   行星科学家长期以来也曾将金星的贫瘠归咎于缺乏一个内部磁场。

经典引文

• Hear, Nature...Into her womb convey sterility.

  出自：King Lear , Shakespeare

• A tree..to relieve the sterility of these lonely shores.

  出自： A. Geikie

• Stoppard's plays have been marked by..ultimate sterility.

  出自：New Republic

词汇搭配

• sterile 贫瘠的
• interspecific sterility 种间不育性,种间不育...
• hybrid sterility 杂种不育性
• chromosomal sterility 染色体不育
• haplontic sterility 单倍体不育
• commercial sterility 商业无菌, 工业无菌...
• complete sterility 完全不育
• summer sterility 夏季不育
• cross sterility 杂交不育,交配不能...
• sterility test 不育试验,无菌试验...
• gametic sterility 配子不育
• cytoplasmic sterility 胞质不育
• male sterility 男性不育症,雄性不育...
• secondary sterility 继发不育
• chromosome sterility 染色体不育
• primary sterility 原发不育
• bacteriological sterility 细菌学的无菌性...
• cyclic sterility 循环不稔性,循环不育...
• diplontic sterility 二倍体不育
• female sterility 气门,雌性不育性,女...

近反义词

【近义词】

• infertility 不肥沃
• antisepsis 防腐法
• barrenness 不毛
• unfruitfulness 没有结果(不结果实的)...
• desolation 荒芜
• bareness 赤裸
• subfertility 低生育力
• impotence 无能
• cleanness 清洁
• disinfection 消毒
• decontamination 净化
• dullness 迟钝
• banality 平凡
• sterileness sterile的名词形式...
• asepsis 无菌

【反义词】

• fertility 【C】肥沃