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- Dictionaryfe·cund/ˈfekənd/
adjective
- 1. producing or capable of producing an abundance of offspring or new growth; 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.
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 definition: producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful. See examples of FECUND used in a sentence.
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.
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.
adj. 1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful. 2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
fecund meaning, definition, what is fecund: able to produce many children, young ani...: Learn more.
