fecund

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The sex fecund, ardent for mating and offspring, is the type.

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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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  • It must put an end to that lazy, nay criminal, indifference with which the social premises for a fecund family are treated today, and must instead feel itself to be the highest guardian of this most precious blessing of a people. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: The State
  • The codfish aristocracy had never liked my kind for we were the incontinent, fecund, ill-spoken Papist immigrants who had fouled up their perfect Protestant America in the nineteenth century, but van Stryker still became my recruiter, my master, my friend. —  Scoundrel by Bernard Cornwell
  • Quiet and fecund, like the hush that descends upon a Nebraska prairie before an electrical storm uncoils its fury. —  Aeon Eight
  • Would it be because she's a conservative, fecund, Bible-believing, pro-life Christian female? —  Latest Articles
  • I think it is best made in the early autumn when the eggplant and tomatoes are still madly fecund, but when the nights have begun to cool slightly from the swelter of midsummer. —  Tigers & Strawberries
 

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Etymologies (2)

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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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