Fecund vs. Fertile — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fecund and Fertile
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Fecund
Capable of producing offspring or vegetation; fruitful
The study compared demographic characteristics of infertile women with those who were fecund."The smell of mud, of mush, the primeval smell of fecund earth, seemed to sting our faces" (Joseph Conrad).
Fertile
Capable of initiating, sustaining, or supporting reproduction.
Fecund
Characterized by or suggestive of fertility
The large aphids were more fecund than the smaller ones."Deep in the end of the back yard, the blossoming peach tree shone like a celestial sentinel. The fecund air lavished upon their faces the tenderness of a lover's adoring hands" (James Agee).
Fertile
Capable of growing and developing; able to mature
A fertile egg.
Fecund
Characterized by intellectual productivity
A fecund mind.
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Fertile
(Botany) Bearing functional reproductive structures such as seeds or fruit or material such as spores or pollen.
Fecund
(formal) Highly fertile; able to produce offspring.
Fertile
Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
Fecund
(figuratively) Leading to new ideas or innovation.
Fertile
Rich in material needed to sustain plant growth
Fertile soil.
Fecund
Fruitful in children; prolific.
Fertile
Highly or continuously productive; prolific
A fertile imagination.
A fertile source of new ideas.
Fecund
Capable of producing offspring or vegetation
Fertile
(Physics) Capable of producing fissionable material
Fertile thorium 232.
Fecund
Intellectually productive;
A prolific writer
A fecund imagination
Fertile
Of land, etc.: capable of growing abundant crops; productive.
Fertile
(figuratively) Of one's imagination, etc.: active, productive, prolific.
Fertile
(biology)
Fertile
Capable of reproducing; fecund, fruitful.
Most women at the age of fifty are not fertile.
Fertile
Capable of developing past the egg stage.
Fertile
(physics) Not itself fissile, but able to be converted into a fissile material by irradiation in a reactor. Category:en:Nuclear warfare Category:en:Uranium
There are two basic fertile materials: uranium-238 and thorium-232.
Fertile
Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or fields; a fertile mind or imagination.
Though he in a fertile climate dwell.
Fertile
Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
Fertile
Produced in abundance; plenteous; ample.
Henceforth, my early care . . . Shall tend thee, and the fertile burden easeOf thy full branches.
Fertile
Capable of reproducing
Fertile
Intellectually productive;
A prolific writer
A fecund imagination
Fertile
Bearing in abundance especially offspring;
Flying foxes are extremely prolific
A prolific pear tree
Fertile
Marked by great fruitfulness;
Fertile farmland
A fat land
A productive vineyard
Rich soil
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