self-fertile

[self-fur-tl, -tahyl, self-]

adjective

Zoology.

1. capable of self-fertilization.

Word History and Origins

Origin of self-fertile¹

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

Even self-fertile varieties, Olson says, will produce much more fruit with a little help from its friends.

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While some varieties may be self-fertile, many fruit trees require a second variety blooming simultaneously for cross-pollination, so you’ll need space for not one, but two plants.

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While many container varieties are self-fertile, you’ll get even more fruit when you grow more than one variety.

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Originally native to China, this self-fertile selection can be counted on to reliably produce a crop of gorgeous berries in Pacific Northwest gardens.

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But this connectome was for only one sex, the hermaphrodite — a self-fertile individual that is considered the worm’s female equivalent.

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