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单词 fecund
释义 fe·cund
\ˈfēkənd, ˈfek-\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English fecund, fecound, from Middle French fecond, from Latin fecundus — more at feminine
1.
 a. : characterized by having produced many offspring or by having yielded vegetation, fruit, or crops to a marked or satisfying degree
  < fecund pastures >
  < fecund herds >
 b. : capable of producing : not sterile or barren : markedly fertile
  < born into a notably fecund family >
2. : marked by noteworthy intellectual productivity and inventiveness
 < ideas are, in Paris, so far more numerous and fecund … that Paris has on an average some eighty odd daily papers — W.C.Brownell >
 < a good part of these inventions came to birth — or were further nourished — in the fecund mind of Leonardo da Vinci — Lewis Mumford >
Synonyms: see fertile
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