fecund

[ fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd ]
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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.

Origin of fecund

1
1375–1425; late Middle English <Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde<Anglo-French

Other words from fecund

  • non·fe·cund, adjective
  • un·fe·cund, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for fecund

fecund

/ (ˈfiːkənd, ˈfɛk-) /


adjective
  1. greatly productive; fertile

  2. intellectually productive; prolific

Origin of fecund

1
C14: from Latin fēcundus; related to Latin fētus offspring

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