fecund
producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.
very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
Origin of fecund
1Other words from fecund
- non·fe·cund, adjective
- un·fe·cund, adjective
Words Nearby fecund
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How to use fecund in a sentence
Virgin Galactic was one of a crop of private companies to sprout, mushroom-like, from the fecund decay of American spaceflight in the early 2000s.
What’s driving the pilots that will fly paying customers into space? | Amelia Urry | June 11, 2021 | Washington PostMonica West’s “Revival Season” is an emotionally fecund and spellbinding debut novel.
The spellbinding ‘Revival Season’ makes Monica West an author to watch | Naomi Jackson | May 28, 2021 | Washington PostBest to go with the fecund middle period, three novels sometimes referred to as “The London Trilogy.”
That openness made the early Google a chaotically fecund operation.
Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest.
The more religion appeals to the senses, the more fecund has been the vocabulary of oaths.
A Cursory History of Swearing | Julian SharmanThey are conceived of fecund nods and looks, of the germination of writing and initials and signatures and contract-stamps.
Mushroom Town | Oliver OnionsA new sense came to her, not altogether depressing, of life's fecund possibility for unhappiness.
The Open Question | Elizabeth RobinsAnd this sea also pleases me by the treasures of fecund life which I know to abound in its dark depths.
The Sea | Jules MicheletBesides, a science made solely in view of applications is impossible; truths are fecund only if bound together.
British Dictionary definitions for fecund
/ (ˈfiːkənd, ˈfɛk-) /
greatly productive; fertile
intellectually productive; prolific
Origin of fecund
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