fertility symbol

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noun

an object, esp a phallic symbol, used in fertility-cult ceremonies to symbolize regeneration

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Words nearby fertility symbol

fertile, Fertile Crescent, fertility, fertility cult, fertility drug, fertility symbol, fertilization, fertilize, fertilizer, fertilizin, ferula

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How to use fertility symbol in a sentence

We see detoxing as a path to transcendence, a symbol of modern urban virtue and self-transformation through abstinence.
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Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.
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Six months of sterility results, after which normal fertility returns.
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It is now possible the building can be a symbol for progress.
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Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.
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Light, the symbol of life's joy, seems to be the first language in which the spirit of beauty speaks to a child.
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This method of concealing the face, together with the wearing of the immense hat, was a symbol of mourning.
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His banks were teeming with happy dusky figures and the smiling irrigated land was bright with fertility.
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There is a great variety of soils found here, and most of them have a fair degree of plant fertility.
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But in Virginia it was grown without interruption or alternation, and the plantations rapidly deteriorated in fertility.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.