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adjective

fecund

producing or capable of producing an abundance of new growth

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Six example sentences with fecund, each labelled with its topic.

  • Volcanic ash makes the valley floor so fecund that farmers there take three harvests a year without fertilizer.

    Environment

  • A single fecund pair of rabbits can leave several hundred descendants on the island within two breeding seasons.

    Science

  • Those five years in Paris were extraordinarily fecund for him: ninety canvases, two sketchbooks a month, and a new technique.

    Art

  • Dickens's most fecund decade produced six novels, a weekly magazine and a stage tour.

    Literature

  • The city's fecund startup scene spawned a dozen new companies a month at the height of the boom.

    Startups

  • Mozart's fecund final years produced three symphonies in a single summer, written in under two months.

    Music

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