Meaning & use
fecund
Capable of producing abundant offspring, growth, or ideas; fertile.
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The fecund soil along the river produced two harvests every year.
Critics praised the novelist's fecund imagination, which had already yielded a dozen books.
A note on using this word
Fecund is a formal, somewhat literary word applied to soil, organisms, or minds capable of rich, abundant production.
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