The meaning of STERILE is failing to bear or incapable of producing fruit or spores. How to use sterile in a sentence.
STERILE definition: 1. (of a living being) unable to produce young, or (of land) unable to produce plants or crops: 2…. Learn more.
Definition of sterile adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
- (of soil, plants, humans and other animals) unable to produce crops, seeds, children or young. 2. free from germs. A surgeon's equipment must be absolutely sterile.
Something that is sterile is completely clean and free from germs. He always made sure that any cuts were protected by sterile dressings. Urine is sterile.
Microbiology free from living germs, bacteria, or microorganisms: a sterile environment for operating on patients. Microbiology not able to produce young: fears that nuclear radiation made people sterile.
Adjective sterile (comparative more sterile, superlative most sterile) (not comparable) Unable to reproduce (or procreate).
STERILE definition: free from living germs or microorganisms; aseptic. See examples of sterile used in a sentence.