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fecund.

Adjective
Formal
MEANING

capable of producing abundant offspring, growth, or new ideas

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  • fecund soil
  • fecund imagination
  • fecund landscape

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The river left behind a layer of fecund soil.
Vines flourished in the fecund garden.
Her fecund imagination supplied a new ending each night.

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Primary curation section: Environment. Emphasizes productive fertility, unlike verdant, which emphasizes green appearance. Formal; figurative intellectual use is established. Comparative: more fecund; superlative: most fecund. Related noun: fecundity.

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