Fecund vs Plenteous - What's the difference?
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(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
In plenty; abundant.
* Milton
(obsolete) Having plenty; abounding; rich.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxviii. 11.
As adjectives the difference between fecund and plenteous
is that fecund is highly fertile; able to produce offspring while plenteous is in plenty; abundant.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.
Synonyms
* (highly fertile) fertile * (leading to new ideas or innovation) fertile, productive, prolificplenteous
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His farm, though small, nevertheless allowed him a plenteous supply of healthy food.
- Reaping plenteous crop.
- The Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods.