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fecund
[ fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd ]
adjective
- producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:
fecund parents; fecund farmland.
- very productive or creative intellectually:
the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
fecund
/ ˈfiːkənd; ˈfɛk- /
adjective
- greatly productive; fertile
- intellectually productive; prolific
Other Words From
- non·fecund adjective
- un·fecund adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of fecund1
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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