English Dictionary

fecund

/ˈfɛk.ənd/

adj

(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring. / (figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.

The fecund soil produced a bountiful harvest.

意味（1）

(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.

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.

意味（2）

(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.

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.