Fecund definitions

fē'kənd, fĕk'ənd
The definition of fecund is someone capable of getting pregnant and giving birth, or is being capable of having large amounts of offspring.

A woman who can get pregnant is an example of someone who would be described as fecund.

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Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful.
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Characterized by or suggestive of fertility.
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Fruitful or fertile; productive; prolific.
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Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful.

The study compared demographic characteristics of infertile women with those who were fecund.

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Characterized by or suggestive of fertility.

The large aphids were more fecund than the smaller ones.

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(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
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(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
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Characterized by intellectual productivity.

A fecund mind.

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Origin of fecund

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

Sentence Examples

  • Diniz, who had been educated by Amyeric of Cahors, proved himself the most fecund poetking of his day, though the pleiad of fidalgos forming his court, and the jograes who flocked there from all parts, were fewer in number, less productive, and lacked the originality, vigour and brilliance of the singers who versified round Alphonso III.

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

  • fecund theater should be required viewing.

  • fecund imagination than China Miéville.

  • 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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