Fecund Definition

fēkənd, fĕkənd
adjective
Fruitful or fertile; productive; prolific.
Webster's New World
Characterized by or suggestive of fertility.
The large aphids were more fecund than the smaller ones.
American Heritage Medicine
Characterized by intellectual productivity.
A fecund mind.
American Heritage

(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.

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Origin of Fecund

  • From Middle French fécond, from Latin fecundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French fecond from Latin fēcundus dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fecund Sentence Examples

  • Zebrafish are highly fecund -each female is capable of laying 200 eggs per clutch.

  • The decades of the 1860s and 1870s were a particularly fecund period in both of these fields.

  • The cache-sexe can be traced to the Paleolithic period, where stone carvings of fecund women, such as the Venus of Lespugue, depict panels of string fore and aft.

  • From fecund egg to ravenous caterpillar (larva) to metamorphosing pupa to parental adult, the butterfly's life is profoundly meaningful.

  • Mark Doyle is a producer for fecund films and a core member of fecund films and a core member of fecund's acting ensemble.

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Words Starting With

FFEFEC

Words Ending With

DNDUND

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fecund

Words Starting With F and Ending With D

Starts With F & Ends With DStarts With FE & Ends With DStarts With F & Ends With ND

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With F6 Letter Words Ending With D