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fecundity

noun
/fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/UK

Etymology

From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity.

  1. derived from fēcundus
  2. formed as fecundity — “fecund + -ity”

Definitions

  1. Ability to produce offspring.

  2. Ability to cause growth or increase.

  3. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.

    • The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Rate of production of young by a female.

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Derived

antifecundity, infecundity, subfecundity, superfecundity

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fecundity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA