FECUNDITY


Meaning of FECUNDITY in English

/fi kun"di tee/ , n.

1. the quality of being fecund; capacity, esp. in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.

2. fruitfulness or fertility, as of the earth.

3. the capacity of abundant production: fecundity of imagination.

[ 1375-1425; late ME fecunditas fruitfulness, fertility. See FECUND, -ITY ]

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