fecund
Americanadjective
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producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful.
fecund parents; fecund farmland.
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very productive or creative intellectually.
the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
adjective
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greatly productive; fertile
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intellectually productive; prolific
Other Word Forms
- nonfecund adjective
- unfecund adjective
Etymology
Origin of fecund
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- ( fetus ) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French
Example Sentences
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Herbs: bright, fecund, verdant, elevating our food with both flavor and color, guiding us from heavy comfort foods into a punchier, lighter category of cuisine.
From Salon • Apr. 3, 2025
With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
The painting creaks with fecund joy, as if it wants to go on flourishing.
From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2024
The idea, in theory, is that all of these economic policies, when combined with the party’s traditional social conservatism, will make it easier for regular working folks to thrive and be fecund.
From Slate • Jan. 11, 2024
The trolley even smelled damp, like the woods after rain, fecund and rich.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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