Fecund
//ˈfɛk.ənd//
"Fecund" in a Sentence (3 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.
The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons.
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.
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