fecund Definition
fe·cund (fē′kənd, fek′ənd)
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 kun′də tē, fi-) noun
fecund Synonyms
fecund
modif.
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.
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