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superfecundity

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

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