unfertile

It is the inclosure nearest to the cottage, and seems now to be a pasture, and a rather remarkably unfertile one.

Mrs. Jones, seeing that her attempts to be affectionate were falling upon unfertile ground, dropped his hand.

These soils are rendered unfertile by the lack of this one all important factor of fertility.

Observe, too, how he drives off the young unfertile fish which are ever lying in wait to devour the spawn.

It is also found in great plenty in Jallonkadoo (particularly about Boori), another hilly, but by no means an unfertile, country.