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" There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names."
Giordano Bruno

Meaning of "fecund" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FECUND

From Latin fēcundus; related to Latin fētus offspring.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF FECUND

ˈfiːkənd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FECUND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fecund is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES FECUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Fecundity

Fecundity, derived from the word fecund, generally refers to the ability to reproduce. In demography, fecundity is the potential reproductive capacity of an individual or population. In biology, the definition is more equivalent to fertility, or the actual reproductive rate of an organism or population, measured by the number of gametes, seed set, or asexual propagules. This difference is because demography considers human fecundity which is often intentionally limited through contraception, while biology assumes that organisms do not limit fertility. Fecundity is under both genetic and environmental control, and is the major measure of fitness. Fecundation is another term for fertilization. Superfecundity refers to an organism's ability to store another organism's sperm and fertilize its own eggs from that store after a period of time, essentially making it appear as though fertilization occurred without sperm. Fecundity is important and well studied in the field of population ecology. Fecundity can increase or decrease in a population according to current conditions and certain regulating factors.

Definition of fecund in the English dictionary

The definition of fecund in the dictionary is greatly productive; fertile. Other definition of fecund is intellectually productive; prolific.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FECUND

blackened · darkened · femtosecond · infecund · jocund · lichened · microsecond · millisecond · nanosecond · picosecond · rubicund · second · sixty-second · split-second · unawakened · unquickened · unreckoned · unthickened · unwakened · unweakened

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FECUND

fechter · fecial · fecit · feck · feckin · fecking · feckless · fecklessly · fecklessness · feckly · fecula · feculae · feculence · feculency · feculent · fecundate · fecundation · fecundator · fecundatory · fecundity

WORDS THAT END LIKE FECUND

all-around · around · background · bound · compound · fall to the ground · found · fund · ground · hound · into the ground · iracund · pound · refund · round · secund · sound · to the ground · underground · verecund

Synonyms and antonyms of fecund in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «FECUND»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «fecund» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «fecund» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FECUND

Find out the translation of fecund to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of fecund from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fecund» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

肥沃
1,325 millions of speakers
es

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fecunda
570 millions of speakers
en

English

fecund
510 millions of speakers
hi

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उपजाऊ
380 millions of speakers
ar

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خصب
280 millions of speakers
ru

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плодородный
278 millions of speakers
pt

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fecunda
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

উর্বর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

fécond
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Fecund
190 millions of speakers
de

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fruchtbar
180 millions of speakers
ja

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肥沃な
130 millions of speakers
ko

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다산의
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Fecund
85 millions of speakers
vi

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tốt
80 millions of speakers
ta

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வளம்
75 millions of speakers
mr

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फीकंड
75 millions of speakers
tr

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bereketli
70 millions of speakers
it

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fecondo
65 millions of speakers
pl

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płodny
50 millions of speakers
uk

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родючий
40 millions of speakers
ro

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fecund
30 millions of speakers
el

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γόνιμη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vrugbare
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

frukt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fruktbar
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fecund

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2 QUOTES WITH «FECUND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word fecund.
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Giordano Bruno
There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names.
2
Tyne Daly
Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to get through the really tough patch, around 50, by just cutting my price and playing ten years older. I didn't want to have to wait until I was an old lady to play one.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FECUND»

Discover the use of fecund in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fecund and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Fecund's Melancholy Daughter
The city is crumbling.
Brent Hayward, 2012
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms
... ravenous: relentless, implacable, merciless, »grim Con »tame, subdued, submissive ferret out vb »seek, search, scour, hunt, comb, ransack, rummage Ana extract, elicit (see EDUCE): penetrate, pierce, probe (see ENTER) fertile, fecund, ...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1984
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Handbook of Biological Control: Principles and Applications ...
Taxa Medium" Development References Order Coleoptera Family Coccinellidae Adalia bipunctata Oligidic Partial larval Hawkes, 1920 Oligidic/meridic Egg to fecund adult Kariluoto, 1980 Aiolocaria hexaspilota (= mirabilis) (Hope) Oligidic6  ...
T. W. Fisher, Thomas S. Bellows, L. E. Caltagirone, 1999
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English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837
The method of calculation used to derive a proportion of women still fecund for individual years of age or for five-year age groups is illustrated in figure A8.1, which refers to this calculation for women in the age group 35-9. In the figure a part of ...
E. A. Wrigley, 1997
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Encyclopedia of Birth Control
The term is closely related to fertility, but fecund relates most specifically to a person's potential and fertility relates to the actual children a person conceives and carries through to birth. In actual use by scientists, scholars, and researchers,  ...
Marian Rengel, 2000
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Metaphysics: A Critical Translation with Kant's ...
And yet he nevertheless perspicuously perceives all the possible doubts of souls concerning these same means (§869, 873).118 §886 The more fecund a means is, the greater is the perfection posited by it (§166, 341). Therefore, the most ...
Alexander Baumgarten, Courtney D. Fugate, John Hymers, 2013
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The Human Condition
Constant and Fecund are old friends. They grew up together, went to the same school, saw each other daily, still continue to meet and talk often, and confide in one another when some serious matter comes up in their lives. Constant did well  ...
John Kekes, 2010
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Handbook of Primary Care Psychology
Dr. Fecund performs a physical exam and is relieved to learn that the patient's very thorough internist is managing all of her medical issues and has initiated a conversation regarding future assisted-living options. Sara W. is a 17-year-old who ...
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine University of Utah Leonard J. Haas Director of Behavioral Medicine, School of Medicine, 2004
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Revue D'epidemiologie Et de Sante Publique
SPECIALISED CENTRES TREAT IN AVERAGE THE LESS FECUND COUPLES After a series of unsuccessful cycles, couples already treated for infertility are generally oriented to reference centres. Thus, the mean probability of conception  ...
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Luminarium atque Planetarum motuum Tabulæ octoginta quinque ...
48. minucnda,qux multiplico per grad.3.ferê fuperabundantes gradíbus tabulat,8( produахти: minut. z. fecund; 24. minuenda . inuenio etiam in diredo motus in horis,rni~ nut.31..fecund.4z.8( per confequens motusminutorum,horarum,erunt ...
Johannes de Blanchinis, Nicolaus Pruckner, Georg “von” Peuerbach, 1553

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FECUND»

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Wild boar populations an unmeasured menace in B.C., says … - CBC
"Because they're fecund (fertile), the juveniles can easily sustain the population," said Kost, who noted that the average female boar can ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Red wolf debacle shows US Fish and Wildlife Service missing spine …
... with bringing back the red wolf, even in the face of substantial interference from the wolf's adaptable and fecund sister species, the coyote. «News & Observer, Jul 15»
3
Florida discoveries: Pineland's Calusa Heritage Trail | Miami Herald …
... you down layer upon layer of bygones, through the historic Cracker shacks of Matlacha and along mango groves fecund with summer fruit. «Miami Herald, Jul 15»
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To Jaisalmer With A Sack Of Jackfruit | Swarajya
Now, overripe jackfruit and bananas and strong oily pickles have a fecund musk that attract spirits—mostly naughty ones at that—to themselves ... «Swarajya, Jul 15»
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What You See When You See: Deccani Paintings-Mystical …
In it the Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II, clad in a pink and gold dress, and astride a horse gallops in a fecund dreamscape with a white hawk on his ... «Bangalore Mirror, Jul 15»
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Fly-fishing and golf in County Mayo: You're in for good craic - The …
The River Moy is an exception to this rule; the river's most fecund stretches, including the Ridge Pool, rest smack in the middle of town. Instead ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
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The Seed Collectors by Scarlett Thomas review – a fantastical family …
And in a novel so fecund with invention, it is regrettable that this is all the intercourse Thomas could imagine. To order a copy of The Seed ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Hunt ticks China's Watermark coal project | afr.com
... because it is a proposed new coal mine and because it sits on one of the Permian outcrop hills that fringe the fecund Liverpool Plains. «The Australian Financial Review, Jul 15»
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Northwest forests inspired New York artist's ambitious, intimate …
Despite this turmoil, one can't help but feel Goeller's glee with the fecund woodlands. In a section she describes as the "land of arbitrary ... «OregonLive.com, Jul 15»
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Dissecting Writer Kevin Williamson!
In a fecund decade long relationship forged with horror maestro Wes Craven, SCREAM rewrote the slasher rulebook. Period, full stop! In fact, it ... «JoBlo.com, Jul 15»
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