fecund-

1. A reference to animals, the earth, etc. which are capable of producing offspring or vegetable growth abundantly and prolifically: A fecund land is fertile and productive for crops because lots of vegetation can flourish there.
2. Pertaining to producing many living organisms or vegetation which is present in large quantities: Insects are apparently the most fecund breeders in nature.
3. Relating to an imaginative or inventive mind: A fecund person often produces original and creative things that are unusual. © ALL rights are reserved.

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The possibility of a woman, or a female animal, giving birth within a given time period, especially during a certain month or menstrual cycle: Some medical authorities have determined that smoking, caffeine, or alcohol use among parents have a serious affect on the fecundability of a mother-to-be.

1. To render fruitful or productive.
2. To make the female, human, animal, or vegetation fruitful by the introduction of the male element of the species; to impregnate, to fertilize; or to pollinate certain plants.

The process of producing a new organism by fertilization.

A reference to fertilizing animals, plants, insects, etc.

Anything that fertilizes in order to reproduce its species.

1. Relating to the process of producing offspring or children via impregnation, etc.
2. A reference to the act of making fertile or greatly productive:

• A fecundatory soil is rich in materials necessary for initiating or sustaining plant growth.
• The fecundatory animal is capable of producing its species.
• A fecundatory mind or mental inventions are rich in various activities.

1. Physical reproduction or the capacity for bringing forth young ones: One man and his wife had an abnormally large fecundity of children as illustrated in the image below.
2. The faculty or power of being fruitful with material things: There is a fecundity of animals, plants, etc. and of immaterial things; like words, wisdom, power, etc.
3. The intellectual results of a creative imagination: There is a fecundity of various forms of writing in abundance; such as, in newspapers, magazines, books, correspondence, etc.
4. In biology, the power or quality of producing offspring rapidly and in large numbers: There is one fecundity that exists in nature which is the ability to produce mature, fertilizable ova or eggs, and to cause them to become living creatures. © ALL rights are reserved.

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Do you know why the man is asking the father about "going broke buying cigars" based on the many children that he has?

• In some places; such as, the United States of America and Cuba, when mothers gave birth to babies, the fathers traditionally handed out cigars to friends and family members announcing that a new child had been born.
• This tradition may still be practiced in our modern times; however, now it usually happens after the birth at a party celebrating his or her being a new baby.

The animals that are capable of producing offspring or the vegetable growth that is prolific.

A reference to something that is not being fruitful; or someone who is not producing young ones; barren, unproductive.

Descriptive of being unfertilized; not impregnated.

An unfruitfulness; barrenness; a female sterility.

The successive fertilization by two or more separate instances of impregnation of two or more ova, or eggs, formed during the same menstrual cycle: Superimpregnation involves the production of litter-mates or siblings with different fathers.

Fertility that is more abundant than normal.

Descriptive of not being prolific or fruitful; barren, unproductive.