Definition of fecund

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Fecund (a.) Fruitful in children; prolific.

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Ovulist :: Ovulist (n.) A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), current during the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, and that at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave the impetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which all generations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist..
Fecundated :: Fecundated (imp. & p. p.) of Fecundat.
Micropyle :: Micropyle (n.) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule..
Semen :: Semen (n.) The seed or fecundating fluid of male animals; sperm. It is a white or whitish viscid fluid secreted by the testes, characterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power..
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To fecundate; as, to fertilize flower..
Fertilitate :: Fertilitate (v. t.) To fertilize; to fecundate.
Agenesic :: Agenesic (a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.
Virgin :: Virgin (n.) A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect..
Sterilize :: Sterilize (v. t.) To deprive of the power of reproducing; to render incapable of germination or fecundation; to make sterile.
Fertility :: Fertility (n.) The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination..
Fecundation :: Fecundation (n.) The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from the organs of the male, so that a new organism results; impregnation; fertilization..
Sperm :: Sperm (n.) The male fecundating fluid; semen. See Semen.
Isis :: Isis (n.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture..
Sparrow :: Sparrow (n.) One of many species of small singing birds of the family Fringilligae, having conical bills, and feeding chiefly on seeds. Many sparrows are called also finches, and buntings. The common sparrow, or house sparrow, of Europe (Passer domesticus) is noted for its familiarity, its voracity, its attachment to its young, and its fecundity. See House sparrow, under House..
Infecund :: Infecund (a.) Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
Impregnation :: Impregnation (n.) The fusion of a female germ cell (ovum) with a male germ cell (in animals, a spermatozoon) to form a single new cell endowed with the power of developing into a new individual; fertilization; fecundation..
Fecundity :: Fecundity (n.) The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility; richness of invention; as, the fecundity of God's creative power..
Superfecundity :: Superfecundation (n.) Fertilization of two ova, at the same menstruation, by two different acts of coition..
Fecundate :: Fecundate (v. t.) To make fruitful or prolific.
Prefecundatory :: Prefecundatory (a.) Of or pertaining to prefecundation.
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