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fecundity
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fecundity has 3 senses
- fecundity(n = noun.cognition) fruitfulness - the intellectual productivity of a creative imagination; Array is a kind of creative thinking, creativeness, creativity
- fecundity(n = noun.state) fertility - the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring; Array is a kind of physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state
- fecundity(n = noun.attribute) fruitfulness - the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth; Array is a kind of quality
Derived form adjective fecund2
Derived form adjective fecund1
has particulars: fertility, prolificacy, rankness, richness, productiveness, productivity
CIDE DICTIONARY
fecundity, n. [L. fecunditas: cf. F. fécondité. See Fecund.].
- The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially
(Biol.) , the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers. [1913 Webster] - The power of germinating; as in seeds. [1913 Webster]
- The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power. Bentley. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
fecundity
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.
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