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fecund [ˈfiːkənd ˈfɛk-] adj
1. greatly productive; fertile 2. intellectually productive; prolific [from Latin fēcundus; related to Latin fētus offspring] ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
fecund (Literary) adjective fertile, productive, prolific, fruitful, teeming, fructiferous a symbol of fecund nature productive, creative, fertile, inventive, fruitful, generative a particularly fecund period of work How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. The water moistened a small swale that lay beneath the spot, which yielded, in return for the fecund gift, a scanty growth of grass. 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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