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fe·cund

(fē′kənd, fĕk′ənd)

adj.

a. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful: The study compared demographic characteristics of infertile women with those who were fecund."The smell of mud, of mush, the primeval smell of fecund earth, seemed to sting our faces" (Joseph Conrad).

b. Characterized by or suggestive of fertility: The large aphids were more fecund than the smaller ones."Deep in the end of the back yard, the blossoming peach tree shone like a celestial sentinel. The fecund air lavished upon their faces the tenderness of a lover's adoring hands" (James Agee).

2. Characterized by intellectual productivity: a fecund mind. See Synonyms at fertile.

[Middle English, from Old French fecond, from Latin fēcundus; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

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fecund

(ˈfiːkənd; ˈfɛk-)

adj

1. greatly productive; fertile

2. intellectually productive; prolific

[C14: from Latin fēcundus; related to Latin fētus offspring]

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fe•cund

(ˈfi kʌnd, -kənd, ˈfɛk ʌnd, -ənd)

adj.

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

2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.

[1375–1425; late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French < Latin fēcundus (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix]

fe•cun•di•ty (fɪˈkʌn dɪ ti) n.

fecund

, fecundation - Fecund is another word for "fertile, fruitful, productive"; fecundation is another word for "fertilization, impregnation."

fecund

(Literary)

adjective fertile, productive, prolific, fruitful, teeming, fructiferous a symbol of fecund nature

1. productive, creative, fertile, inventive, fruitful, generative a particularly fecund period of work

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fecund

adjective

1. Capable of reproducing:

fertile, fruitful, productive, prolific.

Biology: proliferous.

2. Characterized by great productivity:

fertile, fruitful, productive, prolific, rich.

Translations

fekund

fécond

fecondo

fecund

[ˈfiːkənd] ADJ → fecundo

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fecund

adj (lit, fig) → fruchtbar

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fecund

[ˈfiːkənd] adj (liter) → fecondo/a

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fe·cund

a. fecundo-a; fértil.

References in classic literature ?

The sweat poured unceasingly from their bodies, and in their nostrils was the heavy smell of rotting vegetation and of black earth that was a-crawl with fecund life.

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The water moistened a small swale that lay beneath the spot, which yielded, in return for the fecund gift, a scanty growth of grass.

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And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund and mys- terious life seemed to look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own tenebrous and passionate soul.

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'A procedure should be adopted to ensure the establishment of burn units and trauma centers in other hospitals of the province and to fill the vacant pots of plastic surgeons' he said and added that responsible persons should take fecund steps within a time frame to completely trigger burn and trauma center in Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) Peshawar.

Striving to modernize health sector: CM

After penning his fecund imagination in the books that inspired 'GoT', Martin's storytelling will adorn the Meow Wolf multi-verse, reported The Hollywood Reporter.

George R.R. Martin joins art company 'Meow Wolf'

This fecund business axiom is being bountifully displayed by Ambassador Wanle Akinboboye at his La Campagne Tropicana Beach Resort, Ikegun Village, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos where creative instinct is being interplayed with innovative necessity.

La Campagne Builds World's First Mud House With Indoor Swimming Pool

An unfiltered, relentless array of fecund details threaten and beguile her, creating a moody portrait of a young woman settling into herself, all while leaving her state of mind in mysterious flux.

Paradise Rot

In a world that is rapidly shrinking through technological catalysts, and not all of them with good intentions, and yet become increasingly dispersive due to it, the gathering of fecund minds with positive messages for society is a dose of tonic well administered.

Festival of literature has carved out its niche

Santorai assured the parents for his fecund efforts to address prevailing issues of school for its resolving.

Quality education is basic component of development: Aakash Santorai

It sure looks like it, with three of the prolific and obviously fecund Kardashians-Kim, Khloe and Kylie-rumored to be in that 'interesting' condition.

Wide variety of genre films at Spanish fest

It was a fecund milieu in which the concept came to fruition, the single vision, the red coals of creation, the Scarlet triumphs!

Adj.	1.	fecund - capable of producing offspring or vegetation fertile - capable of reproducing
	2.	fecund - intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" prolific, fertile productive - producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly); "productive farmland"; "his productive years"; "a productive collaboration"