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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
Virgin Galactic was one of a crop of private companies to sprout, mushroom-like, from the fecund decay of American spaceflight in the early 2000s.
Monica West’s “Revival Season” is an emotionally fecund and spellbinding debut novel.
Best to go with the fecund middle period, three novels sometimes referred to as “The London Trilogy.”
That openness made the early Google a chaotically fecund operation.
Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest.
The more religion appeals to the senses, the more fecund has been the vocabulary of oaths.
They are conceived of fecund nods and looks, of the germination of writing and initials and signatures and contract-stamps.
A new sense came to her, not altogether depressing, of life's fecund possibility for unhappiness.
And this sea also pleases me by the treasures of fecund life which I know to abound in its dark depths.
Besides, a science made solely in view of applications is impossible; truths are fecund only if bound together.
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