肥沃(ひよく)

ひよく
na-adjective
fertile; rich (soil)
1. fertile; rich (soil, land)
Describing soil or land that is rich in nutrients and well-suited for growing crops.
この土地(とち)は肥沃(ひよく)だ。
This land is fertile.
肥沃(ひよく)な大地(だいち)で農業(のうぎょう)が盛(さか)んだ。
Agriculture flourished on the fertile land.
川(かわ)が氾濫(はんらん)するたびに栄養分(えいようぶん)が運(はこ)ばれ、流域(りゅういき)の土壌(どじょう)は非常(ひじょう)に肥沃(ひよく)になった。
Each time the river flooded, it carried nutrients, making the soil in the basin extremely fertile.

A な-adjective used almost exclusively to describe soil and land. The characters mean 肥(こ)える (to become rich/fat) + 沃(よく) (to irrigate/enrich). Common in geography, agriculture, and history texts.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 肥沃(ひよく)な土地(とち): fertile land
  • 肥沃(ひよく)な土壌(どじょう): fertile soil
  • 肥沃(ひよく)な大地(だいち): fertile earth
  • 肥沃(ひよく)な平野(へいや): fertile plain
  • 肥沃(ひよく)な三日月(みかづき)地帯(ちたい): Fertile Crescent

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 豊(ゆた)かな: rich, abundant — broader, not limited to soil
  • 肥(こ)えた土(つち): rich soil — more colloquial way to say fertile soil
  • 不毛(ふもう): barren, infertile — the antonym
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