Fecund \Fec"und\, a. [L. fecundus, from the root of fetus: cf.
F. f['e]cond. see Fetus.]
Fruitful in children; prolific. --Graunt.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fecund
adj 1: capable of producing offspring or vegetation
2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund
imagination" [syn: fertile, prolific]
WordNet (r) 2.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
fertile, prolific
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