ˈfēkənd, ˈfek- adjective
Etymology: Middle English fecund, fecound, from Middle French fecond, from Latin fecundus — more at feminine
1.
a. : characterized by having produced many offspring or by having yielded vegetation, fruit, or crops to a marked or satisfying degree
fecund pastures
fecund herds
b. : capable of producing : not sterile or barren : markedly fertile
born into a notably fecund family
2. : marked by noteworthy intellectual productivity and inventiveness
ideas are, in Paris, so far more numerous and fecund … that Paris has on an average some eighty odd daily papers — W.C.Brownell
a good part of these inventions came to birth — or were further nourished — in the fecund mind of Leonardo da Vinci — Lewis Mumford
Synonyms: see fertile