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Pearlman's inventiveness with language and his fecund, ultra-logical extrapolations of his initial premise call to mind the classic early work of Philip Dick and the biting satires of Fritz Leiber.

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

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  • And now there were three of them, with a fourth on the way as the fecund sword gave birth yet again. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
  • Such matches were more likely to be fecund, and the resulting children stronger. —  Ship Of Destiny
  • Anything that wasn't did not last more than a week before it was overwhelmed by the planet's incredibly fecund, moisture-driven flora. —  Drowning World
  • The air was damp, cool but fecund, and my moccasins sank soundlessly into centuries-thick black leaf mold. —  Drums of Autumn
  • Pearlman's inventiveness with language and his fecund, ultra-logical extrapolations of his initial premise call to mind the classic early work of Philip Dick and the biting satires of Fritz Leiber. —  New Race
 

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

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  1. from Middle English fecounde, from Old French fecond, F. fécond = Spanish Portuguese fecundo = Italian fecondo, from Latin fecundus, fruitful, fertile (of plants and animals), from √ *fe, generate, produce (see fetus), + -cundus, a formative of adjectives.
 

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/ˈfɛkənd/
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