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Proliferous vs Fecund - What's the difference?

proliferous | fecund | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between proliferous and fecund

is that proliferous is producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative while fecund is highly fertile; able to produce offspring.

proliferous

English

Adjective

  • producing many offspring; prolific or proliferative
  • (botany) producing many buds or offshoots from leaves or flowers
  • (zoology) reproducing by budding

    • Related terms

    * proliferate * proliferation * proliferative * prolific

    fecund

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (qualifier)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
  • * 2001 , Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population? , page 9
    • 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.
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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
    • 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, prolific

    Related terms

    * fecundity