fecund
[ fee-kuhnd, -kuh nd, fek-uhnd, –uh nd ]
adjective
producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
RELATED WORDS
breeding, fertile, fruitful, pregnant, prolific, rich, teeming, spawning, fructiferous
Origin of fecund
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin fēcundus, equivalent to fē- (see fetus) + -cundus adj. suffix; replacing late Middle English fecounde < Anglo-FrenchRelated formsnon·fe·cund, adjectiveun·fe·cund, adjective