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fecund

[ fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd ]

adjective

  1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:

    fecund parents; fecund farmland.

  2. very productive or creative intellectually:

    the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.



fecund

/ ˈfiːkənd; ˈfɛk- /

adjective

  1. greatly productive; fertile
  2. intellectually productive; prolific
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fecund1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- ( fetus ) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fecund1

C14: from Latin fēcundus ; related to Latin fētus offspring
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Example Sentences

The great Medfly cafeterias of the Central Valley and the Imperial Valley, the fecund cornucopias of the nation, lay vulnerable — but arguably out of reach, Brown calculated.

“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”

The painting creaks with fecund joy, as if it wants to go on flourishing.

This period — one of the most breathtakingly fecund in the history of the American theater — was assisted by regional theater tours that gave him time to hone his plays before they hit Broadway.

State officials say their own surveys put the figure at 0.89, a rate just above that of South Korea, the least fecund nation in the world.

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