Arable vs Fecund - What's the difference?
arable | fecund | Synonyms |
Able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths).
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Under cultivation (within any quinquennial period) for the production of crops sown and harvested within the same agricultural year (contrasted with (permanent)ly-cropped lands such as orchards).
(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
* 2001 , Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population? , page 9
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(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
* 1906 , , "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings? , volume II, page 373
Arable is a synonym of fecund.
As adjectives the difference between arable and fecund
is that arable is able to be plowed or tilled, capable of growing crops (traditionally contrasted with (pasturable) lands such as heaths) while fecund is (formal) highly fertile; able to produce offspring.arable
English
(arable land)Adjective
(en adjective)- And again, since no animal now stole, it was unnecessary to fence off pasture from arable land
fecund
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Alternative forms
* (qualifier)Adjective
(en adjective)- The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determine: (1) the frequency of births during a woman's fecund' period, and (2) the portion of the ' fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction.
- This idea of Aristotle's has proved marvellously fecund ; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity.