Photo of some sterile medical equipment

Sterile

A plant or animal is sterile if it cannot produce offspring. Something that has no living things on it or that cannot sustain living things is also called sterile. Medical equipment is usually provided in sealed packets that keep it sterile.

Another word for sterile is barren. The opposite of sterile is fertile.

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Rhymes with Sterile

Argyle, Awhile, Beguile, Bile, Compile, Crocodile, Dial, Fair Isle, Fertile, File, File (tool), Fragile, Futile, Hostile, Juvenile, Mile, Missile, Nile, Pile, Projectile, Smile, Style, Sundial, Tile, Versatile, Vile, While, Wile, Worthwhile.
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