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fecund Definition

fe·cund (kənd, fekənd)

adjective

fruitful or fertile; productive; prolific

Etymology: ME fecound < OFr fecond < L fecundus, fertile: for IE base see fetus

fecund Related Forms

fe·cun·dity (fē kundə tē, fi-) noun

fecund Synonyms

fecund

modif.

fertile, prolific, productive, fruitful; see fertile 1, 2, original 2. See syn. study at fertile.

fecund Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • theater: With little reservation fecund theater should be required viewing.
  • imagination: There is no one writing fantasy today with a more fecund imagination than China Miéville.
  • film: Mark Doyle is a producer for fecund films and a core member of fecund's acting ensemble.
  • cow: Sweet Earth, the fecund cow, was impregnated with the rich semen of Heaven.
  • landscape: His delicate pencil drawings of isolated figures in impenetrable, but fecund English landscapes, which we can only struggle to unravel.
  • experience: This is essay writing made fun. devising workshop The fecund experience is delivered through active learning and the corporeal, sensual experience of doing.

Modifying Another Word

  • particularly: The decades of the 1860s and 1870s were a particularly fecund period in both of these fields.
  • highly: Zebrafish are highly fecund -each female is capable of laying 200 eggs per clutch.