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- Dictionaryfecund/ˈfɛk(ə)nd/
adjective
- 1. producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; highly fertile: "a lush and fecund garden"
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Fecund applies to things that yield offspring or fruit or results in abundance or with rapidity, as in "a fecund herd" or "a fecund imagination." Its synonyms fruitful and fertile also describe things that produce or are capable of producing offspring or fruit, literally or figuratively.
FECUND definition: 1. able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc.: 2. producing or creating a…. Learn more.
If you describe something as fecund, you approve of it because it produces a lot of good or useful things. [ formal , approval ] It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
FECUND meaning: 1. able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc.: 2. producing or creating a…. Learn more.
The adjective fecund describes things that are highly fertile and that easily produce offspring or fruit. Rabbits are often considered to be fecund animals, and you may hear jokes in poor taste about people reproducing like rabbits if they have a lot of children.
producing new and useful things, especially ideas. Definition of fecund adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
When a region, organism, or creative endeavor is described as fecund, it implies a remarkable capacity for generating new life, ideas, or outcomes. In agricultural contexts, fertile soil that yields a bountiful harvest is considered fecund.
Fecund definition: producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful. See examples of FECUND used in a sentence.
fecund is a borrowing from French. Etymons: French fecond.
If you describe something as fecund, you approve of it because it produces a lot of good or useful things. [ formal , approval ] It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
