fecund

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈfɛk.ənd/    美 /ˈfɛk.ənd/|/ˈfi.kənd/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. formal
    — 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.
  2. Leading to new ideas or innovation. figuratively
    — 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.

词形变化

more fecund comparative most fecund superlative fœcund alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
fecundability fecundate fecundation fecundify fecundist fecundize fecundly infecund superfecund unfecund
相关词
fecundity

词源

From Middle French fécond, from Latin fēcundus (“fertile”), which is related to fētus and fēmina (“woman”).
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