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fecund

[ fee-kuhnd, -kuhnd, fek-uhnd, -uhnd ]

adjective

  1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful:

    fecund parents; fecund farmland.

  2. very productive or creative intellectually:

    the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.



fecund

/ ˈfiːkənd; ˈfɛk- /

adjective

  1. greatly productive; fertile
  2. intellectually productive; prolific
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ԴDz·ڱcܲԻ adjective
  • ܲ·ڱcܲԻ adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of fecund1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ŧܲԻܲ, equivalent to ŧ- ( fetus ) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-French
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of fecund1

C14: from Latin ŧܲԻܲ ; related to Latin ŧٳܲ offspring
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Leslie gives a complete portrait of this remarkably fecund and frequently tortured creative partnership, which began in Liverpool in 1957 and ended in New York City on Dec. 8, 1980, with Lennon’s murder.

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Herbs: bright, fecund, verdant, elevating our food with both flavor and color, guiding us from heavy comfort foods into a punchier, lighter category of cuisine.

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With crackling pastoral language and thematic Lynchian undertones, “Swamplandia!” probed the growing tension in Russell’s home state of Florida between an endangered fecund wilderness and encroaching development.

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The great Medfly cafeterias of the Central Valley and the Imperial Valley, the fecund cornucopias of the nation, lay vulnerable — but arguably out of reach, Brown calculated.

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“I don’t think it’s possible to have a conversation about figuration without going back to this very fecund moment of Black artistic development.”

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