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
- unprocreant adjective
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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And then most birds will sooner or later betray the presence of their nests, but the Kentucky warblers seldom do so, knowing too well how to keep their procreant secrets.
From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
But he proved procreant and reared a goodly brood of sons and daughters—all much like himself, save one, the youngest son.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators by Hubbard, Elbert
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 Burroughs, John
The life outlives them and disdains; The sense which makes the soul remains, And blood of thought which travaileth To bring forth hope with procreant pains.
From Two Nations by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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 Leonard, William Ellery
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