fecund
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fecund
- /ˈfɛk.ənd/ UK
- /ˈfɛk.ənd/ US
- /ˈfi.kənd/ US
Rhymes with -ɛkənd, -iːkənd
Where it comes from
From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
adjective more fecund · most fecund · fœcund
- Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
- Leading to new ideas or innovation. This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.
