procreant
Americanadjective
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procreating or generating.
a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
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pertaining to procreation.
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Etymology
Origin of procreant
1580–90; < Latin prōcreant- (stem of prōcreāns ), present participle of prōcreāre to breed. See procreate, -ant
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Seed time and harvest, as old as the procreant earth and as new as the latest sunrise, are his to conjure.
From The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
But this "procreant cradle" of a bird in the arms of the fanged desert growth softens its aspect a little.
From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs
It was long ago felicitously stated by Whitman in his "Leaves of Grass," "Urge and urge, always the procreant urge of the world."
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Alfred Rayney Waller
But if from naught Were their becoming, they would spring abroad Suddenly, unforeseen, in alien months, With no primordial germs, to be preserved From procreant unions at an adverse hour.
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
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