That produces or yields fruit, a crop, etc.; (also) that gives birth to offspring, or is able to do so. Often (and in later use chiefly) as the…

That engenders, begets, breeds. Also: of or relating to breeding. Cf. engendering, adj.

Becoming more numerous, causing something to become more numerous; breeding, proliferating. †multiplying of: tending to cause to multiply or…

Of animals, the earth, etc.: Capable of producing offspring or vegetable growth abundantly; prolific, fertile.

Prolific; apt or inclined to breed. Now dialect.

Productive of offspring; not barren; producing offspring in abundance, prolific.

That breeds: see the verb.

That procreates, that begets offspring; generative; producing, as in †procreant cause (obsolete).

Relating to procreation; having the power or function of producing offspring. Also figurative.

That increases; growing, augmenting, enlarging, etc.: see the verb. Esp. in law of increasing return(s): the observed fact that in certain…

? Prolific.

= prolific, adj. 3a.

Likely to conceive; fertile, receptive.

Bearing or yielding crops, etc., in abundance; fertile, prolific, productive. Frequently with in or of. Chiefly literary in later use.

Of or relating to the conception of offspring. Also: likely to conceive; favourable to conception; fertile. Also figurative.

Bearing abundantly; fruitful, prolific.

= propagative, adj. rare before 20th cent.

Fertile, not barren; capable of generating or producing offspring; generative, reproductive. Obsolete.

Tending to produce offspring, procreative; encouraging procreation. Obsolete.

Having the quality of propagating; of or relating to propagation; (Botany) concerned with propagation or reproduction.

Of or relating to progeny. Also in extended use.

Productive, prolific, fruitful, fecund. Also figurative. Cf. teeming, adj.1

That produces offspring; reproductive, procreative; (also) progenitorial.

Breeding readily; prolific.

Germinal; progenitive; prolific. Now rare.

Productive; reproductive; (also) progenitorial.

Inclined to or favouring the production of offspring; prolific, fecund. Cf. philogenitive, adj.

Designating or relating to organisms of hybrid or mixed origin that display unimpaired fertility. Cf. paragenesic, adj. and dysgenesic adj. at dys-, p…