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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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)
During the season of incubation and brood rearing the nuthatches retire to the depth of the woods, and are quiet, secretive, and unsocial, seldom betraying their procreant secrets.
From Our Bird Comrades by Keyser, Leander S. (Leander Sylvester)
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
Slow ages seemed to have their will: And, moving toward the prime, Th' Eternal Immanency still Breathed in the senseless lime, Till a dead thing felt the procreant thrill, And shuddered back to time.
From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan
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 Leonard, William Ellery
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