Fecund vs Virile - What's the difference?
fecund | virile |
(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
Being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.
(grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine animate nouns.
As adjectives the difference between fecund and virile
is that fecund is highly fertile; able to produce offspring while virile is being manly; having characteristics associated with being male, such as strength; exhibiting masculine traits to an exaggerated degree such as strength, forcefulness or vigor.fecund
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* (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.