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fecundity

[ fi-kuhn-di-tee ]

noun

  1. the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
  2. fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth.
  3. the capacity of abundant production:

    fecundity of imagination.



fecundity

/ ɪˈʌԻɪɪ /

noun

  1. fertility; fruitfulness
  2. intellectual fruitfulness; creativity
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ԴDzЭ·ܲd·ٲ noun
  • p·ڱ·ܲd·ٲ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of fecundity1

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ŧܲԻ徱 fruitfulness, fertility. See fecund, -ity
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Miranda July’s book ‘All Fours,’ about a Los Angeles woman’s reckoning with perimenopause, imagines the end of fecundity as a joyful second flowering.

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And nobody had acknowledged her blatant fecundity in the slightest, which is such a peak Irish Catholic family move I've got to respect it.

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The blessing has been a tradition on Olvera Street since its founding in 1930, when priests would bless cows, horses and goats at La Placita Church “to help ensure health, fecundity and productivity.”

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The tests also found that adult male fish exposed to bifenthrin an cyhalothrin as larvae had smaller gonads than the control group, while the second generation had increased fecundity.

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They could also help scientists better understand our planet’s fecundity and predict how lifeforms may use carbon in the future.

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