Fecund

//ˈfɛk.ənd// adj

adj ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. formal

    "The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction."

  2. 2
    Leading to new ideas or innovation. figuratively

    "This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity."

Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of producing offspring or vegetation wordnet
  2. 2
    intellectually productive wordnet

Synonyms

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fertileproductiveprolificabundantbattleblooming

Example

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"The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction."

Etymology

From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).

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