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fecundity - 4 dictionary results

fe⋅cun⋅di⋅ty

[fi-kuhn-di-tee]
–noun
1. the quality of being fecund; capacity, esp. in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
2. fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth.
3. the capacity of abundant production: fecundity of imagination.

Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < L fēcunditās fruitfulness, fertility. See fecund, -ity
fe·cun·di·ty   (fĭ-kŭn'dĭ-tē)   
n.  
  1. The quality or power of producing abundantly; fruitfulness or fertility.
  2. Productive or creative power: fecundity of the mind.

Fecundity

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.

fecundity fe·cun·di·ty (fĭ-kŭn'dĭ-tē)
n.
The capacity for producing offspring, especially in abundance.

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