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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.Definition 2024
fecundity
fecundity
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Alternative forms
- fœcundity (hypercorrect, obsolete)
Noun
fecundity (usually uncountable, plural fecundities)
- Ability to produce offspring.
- 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410
- In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
- 2006, Neil Gaiman, “Neil Gaiman on Terry Pratchett” in: Good Omens, Corgi, p. 410
- Ability to cause growth.
- Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.
- Rate of production of young by a female.
Synonyms
- (ability to produce offspring): fertileness, fertility
Related terms
Translations
ability to produce offspring
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ability to cause growth
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rate or capacity of offspring production
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rate of production of young by a female
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External links
- fecundity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- fecundity in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- fecundity in the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English section, United Nations, New York, 1958
- fecundity in the Multilingual Demographic Dictionary, English section, second edition, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, Liège, 1982
- fecundity at OneLook Dictionary Search