fecund

  • 11fecund — /fee kund, keuhnd, fek und, euhnd/, adj. 1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland. 2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years… …

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  • 12fecund — adjective /ˈfiː.kənd,ˈfɛ.kənd/ a) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. 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 womans fecund period,… …

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  • 13Fecund — Fruitful, abundantly fertile. Just as a writer is prolific, a woman may be fecund, able to reproduce plentifully. Etymology: Fecund comes (minus the final us ) from the Latin fecundus meaning fruitful. Fecund emphasizes abundance or rapidity in… …

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  • 14fecund — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin fecundus more at feminine Date: 15th century 1. fruitful in offspring or vegetation ; prolific 2. intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree < a fecund imagination&#8230; …

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  • 15fecund — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fertile, prolific, inventive, creative. See imagination, production. Ant., barren. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. fertile, prolific, productive, fruitful; see fertile 1 , 2 , original 2 . See Synonym&#8230; …

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  • 16fecund — adjective the fecund wheat fields Syn: fertile, fruitful, productive, high yielding; rich, lush, flourishing, thriving See note at fertile Ant: barren …

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  • 17fecund — fe•cund [[t]ˈfi kʌnd, kənd, ˈfɛk ʌnd, ənd[/t]] adj. 1) ecl producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful 2) very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian&#8230; …

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  • 18fecund — prolific, capable of or producing many offspring …

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  • 19fecund — Synonyms and related words: abundant, blooming, bountiful, breeding, bursting, bursting out, conceptive, conceptual, copious, creative, diffuse, diffusive, effusive, esemplastic, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flourishing, formless,&#8230; …

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  • 20fecund — fe|cund Mot Agut Adjectiu variable …

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