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.

Wiktionary

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

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