fecund

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: fe=cund

CIDE DICTIONARY

fecund, a. [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf. F. fécond. see Fetus.].

 Fruitful in children; prolific.  Graunt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fecund, adj.
1 prolific, fertile.
2 fertilizing.

Derivative

fecundability n. fecundity n.

Etymology

ME f. F f{eacute}cond or L fecundus

THESAURUS

fecund

abundant, blooming, bountiful, breeding, bursting, bursting out, conceptive, conceptual, copious, creative, diffuse, diffusive, effusive, esemplastic, extravagant, exuberant, fertile, flourishing, formless, fructiferous, fruitful, generous, germinal, gushing, gushy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, ingenious, inspired, inventive, lush, luxuriant, notional, original, originative, overflowing, plenteous, plentiful, pleonastic, pregnant, prodigal, productive, profuse, profusive, proliferous, prolific, propagating, redundant, reiterative, repetitive, reproducing, rich, seminal, shaping, spawning, superabundant, swarming, tautologous, teeming, thriving, uberous, visioned

ROGET THESAURUS

fecund

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.