Fecund

From Latin "fecundus" ("fruitful"), from an ancient root "*fe-" meaning "to produce or yield," also behind "fetus," "female," and "felicity."

  1. adjective · /FEK-und/

    Highly fertile; capable of producing abundant offspring, growth, or ideas.

    It gives a forceful word for teeming fertility — of soil, of creatures, or of a fertile imagination.

    The delta’s fecund mud yielded three harvests a year.

    Fecund land is bursting with growth; fallow land is deliberately rested and left unsown to recover.