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Webster 1913 Edition
Fecundity
1.
The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially
(Biol.)
, the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers. 2.
The power of germinating; as in seeds.
3.
The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention;
as, the
. fecundity
of God’s creative powerBentley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fecundity
FECUND'ITY
,Noun.
1.
Fruitfulness; the quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers.2.
The power of producing or bringing forth. It is said that the seeds of some plants retain their fecundity forty years.3.
Fertility; the power of bringing forth in abundance; richness of invention.