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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful.
  2. adj. Marked by intellectual productivity. See Synonyms at fertile.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Prolific; readily producing offspring; hence, fruitful or productive in a general sense: as, the fecund earth.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. formal Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
  2. adj. figuratively Leading to new ideas or innovation.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Fruitful in children; prolific.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. capable of producing offspring or vegetation
  2. adj. intellectually productive

Etymologies

  1. From Latin fecundus ("fertile"), which is related to fētus and fēmina ("woman"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old French fecond, from Latin fēcundus; see dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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

    -Heart of Darkness (Conrad) Mar 19, 2011

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