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fecund

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fe·cund  (fknd, fknd)
adj.
1. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful.
2. Marked by intellectual productivity. See Synonyms at fertile.

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

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

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
Translations
fecund [ˈfiːkənd] ADJfecundo
fecund
adj (lit, fig)fruchtbar
fecund [ˈfiːkənd] adj (liter) → fecondo/a
fecund [ˈfiːkənd] adj (liter) → fecondo/a


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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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