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.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of procreant
1580–90; < Latin prōcreant- (stem of prōcreāns ), present participle of prōcreāre to breed. See procreate, -ant
Example Sentences
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This wonderful procreant cradle, an elegant instance of the efforts of instinct, was found in a wheat-field suspended in the head of a thistle.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
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
No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coigne of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed, and procreant cradle.
From Voices for the Speechless by Abraham Firth
In their procreant habits the uniformity is also very great.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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