/fee"kund, -keuhnd, fek"und, -euhnd/ , adj.
1. producing or capable of producing offspring, fruit, vegetation, etc., in abundance; prolific; fruitful: fecund parents; fecund farmland.
2. very productive or creative intellectually: the fecund years of the Italian Renaissance.
[ 1375-1425; late ME fecundus, equiv. to fe- (see FETUS) + -cundus adj. suffix; r. late ME fecounde ]