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–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.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < L fécundus, equiv. to fé- (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix; r. late ME fecounde < AF

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adj.

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

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

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fecund

c.1420, from O.Fr. fecond, from L. fecundus "fruitful, fertile," from *fe-kwondo-, suffixed form of L. base *fe-, corresponding to PIE *dhe(i)- "to suck, suckle," also "produce, yield" (cf. Skt. dhayati "sucks," dhayah "nourishing;" Gk. thele "mother's breast, nipple," thelys "female, fruitful;" O.C.S. dojiti "to suckle," dojilica "nurse," deti "child;" Lith. dele "leech;" O.Prus. dadan "milk;" Goth. daddjan "to suckle;" O.Swed. dia "suckle;" O.H.G. tila "female breast;" O.Ir. denaim "I suck," dinu "lamb"). Also from the same L. base come felare "to suck;" femina "woman" (*fe-mna-, lit. "she who suckles"); felix "happy, auspicious, fruitful;" fetus "offspring, pregnancy;" fenum "hay" (probably lit. "produce"); and probably filia/filius "daughter/son," assimilated from *felios, originally "a suckling."

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fecund
adjective
1.	capable of producing offspring or vegetation
2.	intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination"

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fe·cund (fknd, fknd)
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Capable of producing offspring; fertile.

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Main Entry: fe·cund
Pronunciation: 'fek-&nd, 'fEk-
Function: adjective
1 : characterized by having produced many offspring
2 : capable of producing : not sterile or barren —fe·cun·di·ty /fi-'k&n-d&t-E, fe-/ noun plural -ties

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Fecund

Fec"und\, a. [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. f['e]cond. see Fetus.] Fruitful in children; prolific. --Graunt.

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Fecund

Fec"un*date\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fecundated; p. pr. & vb. n. Fecundating.] [L. fecundare, fr. fecundus. See Fecund.]

1. To make fruitful or prolific. --W. Montagu.

2. (Biol.) To render fruitful or prolific; to impregnate; as, in flowers the pollen fecundates the ovum through the stigma.

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Fecund

Fe*cun"di*ty\, n. [L. fecunditas: cf. F. f['e]condit['e]. See Fecund.]

1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

2. The power of germinating; as in seeds.

3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. --Bentley.

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Fecund

In*fec"und\, a. [L. infecundus: cf. F. inf['e]cond. See In- not, and Fecund.] Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. [Obs.] --Evelyn.

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