Word of the Day: Fecund

[RubyK]

fe·cund | \ ˈfe-kənd , ˈfē- \​

Definition of fecund​

1: fruitful in offspring or vegetation : PROLIFIC a fecund breed of cattle
2: intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree a fecund imagination a fecund source of information

Jeremy has a fecund knowledge of computers and can fix just about any problem one has with them.

 

[Aunt Marg]

Would you give me a fecund minute! Just kidding, LOL! That was just a practice one.

The natural world is characterized as unruly, profligate, and indecently fecund.

 

[RubyK]

Zebrafish are highly fecund -each female is capable of laying 200 eggs per clutch.
(Copied from Google)

 

[Matrix]

Leo Messi is a fecund footballer, he has scored over 500 goals.

 

[Sliverfox]

The bees nest I hit was fecund with honey bees.

 

[KenMill]

I'll have to investigate as to how this works, but Aunt Marg's post was definitely the funniest IMO.

 

[Aunt Marg]

I'll have to investigate as to how this works, but Aunt Marg's post was definitely the funniest IMO.

Thanks, Ken!

I find people (in general) these days are wound-up like tops, so I do my best to try and keep things light here.

P.S. Welcome to the forum!

 

[Meanderer]

It’s possible that Raoul was the most fecund director in the history of the medium.

 

[Robb.hisself]

It looks like a word that would work well in written form. But, I wonder what sort of reaction it would draw if used verbally. Some words, I have found work best when presented only in written form. Thank you for your offering. An interesting word.

 

[Lara]

I see what you mean.

 

[Meanderer]

I'll have to investigate as to how this works, but Aunt Marg's post was definitely the funniest IMO.

I agree!

 

[Kaila]

It looks like a word that would work well in written form. But, I wonder what sort of reaction it would draw if used verbally. Some words, I have found work best when presented only in written form. Thank you for your offering. An interesting word.

I agree with that interesting idea, that some words seem best for writing, rather than speaking;

and it's nice to learn those words like thisone, fecund, because we might encounter a word such as that, even if we don't ourselves, use it in either our speaking or writing.

Sometime in thefuture, when we are reading something that someone else wrote;
We might encounter the word, and remember it from this this forum, and then we will comprehend the intended conceptof that writer.