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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.
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.
FECUND meaning: 1. able to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc.: 2. producing or creating a…. Learn more.
Definitions of 'fecund'. 1. Land or soil that is fecund is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy plants. [formal] [...] 2. If you describe something as fecund, you approve of it because it produces a lot of good or useful things. [formal, approval] [...] More.
Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest. From The Daily Beast The more religion appeals to the senses, the more fecund has been the vocabulary of oaths.
Definition of fecund adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the ability to produce a lot of crops, fruit, babies, young animals, etc.: female fecundity. This part of the state is a lush land of great fecundity. the fact of producing or creating a lot of new things, ideas, etc.: The play is yet another representation of his creative fecundity.
