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fœcund

fœcund is the obsolete form of fecund.

Meaning of fecund

Adjective

fecund (comparative more fecund, superlative most fecund)

  1. (formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
    • The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.2001, Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population, page 9
    Antonyms:
    barren, infecund
  2. (figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
    • This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.1906, Charles Sanders Peirce, “The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences”, in The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings, volume II, page 373
    Antonyms:
    unproductive

Forms of fœcund

comparativemore fœcund
superlativemost fœcund

Questions about fœcund

What is fœcund the obsolete form of?
Fœcund is the obsolete form of fecund.

Words near fœcund in the dictionary

  1. Fărcășești
  2. Fărăgău
  3. Fărău
  4. Făurei
  5. Făurești
  6. fœcund
  7. fœcundity
  8. fœderacy
  9. fœderal
  10. fœderalism
  11. fœderalisms

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