fecund

American  

[fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd] / ˈfi kʌnd, -kənd, ˈfɛk ʌnd, -ənd /

adjective

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 of the Italian Renaissance.

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fecund British  

/ ˈfiːkənd, ˈfɛk- /

adjective

1. greatly productive; fertile

2. intellectually productive; prolific

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Other Word Forms

• nonfecund adjective
• unfecund adjective

Etymology

Origin of fecund

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- ( fetus ) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French

Example Sentences

Herbs: bright, fecund, verdant, elevating our food with both flavor and color, guiding us from heavy comfort foods into a punchier, lighter category of cuisine.

From Salon

With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.

From Los Angeles Times

The great Medfly cafeterias of the Central Valley and the Imperial Valley, the fecund cornucopias of the nation, lay vulnerable — but arguably out of reach, Brown calculated.

From Los Angeles Times

“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”

From New York Times

The painting creaks with fecund joy, as if it wants to go on flourishing.

From New York Times