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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In their procreant habits the uniformity is also very great.
From The Naturalist in La Plata by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
Let some procreant truth exhale From me, before my forces fail; Or ere the ecstatic impulse go, Let all my buds to blossoms blow.
From The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics by Knowles, Frederic Lawrence
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
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 Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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 Waller, Alfred Rayney
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