fecund
[fee-kuhnd, -kuh nd, fek-uhnd, -uh nd]
adjective
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
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French
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Contemporary Examples of fecund
Best to go with the fecund middle period, three novels sometimes referred to as “The London Trilogy.”
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.
Historical Examples of fecund
A woman who has one child has proved that she is fecund, but has not proved that she is fertile.
The Task of Social HygieneHavelock Ellis
A woman with six children has proved that she is not only fecund but fertile.
The Task of Social HygieneHavelock Ellis
It was bliss, it was the nucleolating of the fecund darkness.
The RainbowD. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The fecund sap, their generative virtue, escapes and diminishes at every gleam.
The SeaJules Michelet
Where is this fecund chaos, rich in worlds, that hides the generations that are to be?
The Philosophy of DisenchantmentEdgar Saltus
fecund
adjective
Word Origin for fecund
C14: from Latin fēcundus; related to Latin fētus offspring
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fecund
[fē′kənd, fĕk′ənd]
adj.
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