fecund

Definition

Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.

Etymology

From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "The druids […] believed that mistletoe could make barren animals fecund, and that it was an antidote to all poisons."
• "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."

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