fecund
31fecund — UK [ˈfekənd] / US adjective very formal 1) able to produce many babies, young animals, or new plants 2) producing many good new things Derived word: fecundity UK [feˈkʌndətɪ] / US [fɪˈkʌndətɪ] noun uncountable …
32fecund — /ˈfɛkənd / (say fekuhnd), /ˈfik / (say feek ) adjective capable of producing offspring, or fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful; productive. {Latin fēcundus fruitful; replacing Middle English fecounde, from Old French fecond} …
33fecund — a. fertile. ♦ fecundate, v.t. make fertile. ♦ fecundity, n …
34fecund — see FOETUS …
35fecund — adj. 1 prolific, fertile. 2 fertilizing. Derivatives: fecundability n. fecundity n. Etymology: ME f. F feacutecond or L fecundus …
36fecundity — fecund ► ADJECTIVE ▪ highly fertile; able to produce offspring. DERIVATIVES fecundity noun. ORIGIN Latin fecundus …
37fertile — adjective 1) the soil is fertile Syn: fecund, fruitful, productive, high yielding, rich, lush 2) fertile couples Syn: able to conceive, able to have children; technical fecund Ant …
38fertile — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. prolific, productive, fruitful, rich; creative, inventive. See production, imagination. Ant., infertile, barren. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of land ] Syn. fruitful, rich, productive, fat,… …
39fertile — fertile, fecund, fruitful, prolific mean having or manifesting the power to produce fruit or offspring. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are observable in their corresponding nouns fertility, fecundity, fruitfulness,… …
40prolific — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fruitful, fecund, productive, fertile; lavish. See production, imagination.Ant., unfruitful. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. productive, yielding, rich, fecund; see fertile 1 , 2 . III (Roget s 3… …
