Definitions

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  • adjective Capable of reducing or eliminating fertility; contraceptive.

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  • adjective That reduces fertility
  • adjective contraceptive

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  • adjective capable of preventing conception or impregnation

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ fertility

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Examples

  • A reversible antifertility vaccine for men and women is also under development.

    Searching For A Better Pill 2008

  • One of these foods is peas, and its history as an antifertility food goes back at least as far as 1949.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • Ayurvedic herbal preparations are also used to treat obesity, and as antifertility treatments.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • Ayurvedic herbal preparations are also used to treat obesity, and as antifertility treatments.

    The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000

  • Back here in the United States, studies conducted in the 1990s at the University of Illinois helped establish the antifertility effects of pea-oil—so much so that it is now being studied as a possible natural contraceptive.

    Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000

  • The biological model used in stage (c) to establish an antifertility activity, was a mouse.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • A similar strategy was used in the evaluation of a traditional antifertility preparation.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • Insect antifertility and antifeedant allelochemics in Adhatota vasica.

    Chapter 10 1990

  • "We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with antifertility drugs and … viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," prominent physician Datti Ahmed told journalists at the time.

    Scientific American 2010

  • (c) a traditional antifertility agent with sustained action.

    Chapter 7 1991

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