Fecund
adj ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
- 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 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."
- 1 capable of producing offspring or vegetation wordnet
- 2 intellectually productive wordnet
Example
More examples"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”).