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
Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?
From On the Nature of Things by William Ellery Leonard
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 by Gilbert White
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
Cf. 'no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.'
From Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott
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