0 (of soil, plants, humans and other animals) unable to produce crops, seeds, children or young. -- cằn cỗi, vô sinh
1 free from germs -- vô trùng
A surgeon’s equipment must be absolutely sterile.
A work so conceived can have no emotional power; it is bound to be dull and sterile.
Without this duplication, the mutant flies would be sterile.
The addition of a sterile compost activator (a source of inorganic nutrients) to the vermiculite and seed mix resulted in greatly increased germination (95.2%).
It remains to be assessed whether terminator varieties are, accidentally or otherwise, capable of rendering the seeds of (adjacent) non-terminator varieties also sterile.
Viability tests involved streaking of an aliquot of the suspension on sterile plates containing the appropriate nutrient medium for each species.
This requirement causes controversy, since it does not recognize various sterile organisms as being alive.
This implies that mules, workers ants, and other sterile individuals are not alive.
Climbers were identified to species or morphospecies using vegetative characteristics of sterile specimens collected or observed in the field.
