【每日一词】fecund - / ˈfe-kənd ˈfē- / adj. 肥沃的;多产的;丰饶的;生殖力旺盛的
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
Synonyms
cornucopian,fat,fertile,fructuous,fruitful,lush,luxuriant,productive,prolific,rich
短语
a fecund soil: 肥沃的土地
fecund root: 种根
ticket fecund: 退票
fecund animal: 多产的动物
fecund women: 育龄妇女
双语例句
The pampas are still among the most fecund lands in the world.
这片南美无树大草原仍然是世界上最为肥沃的地方。
It has now become clear how extraordinarily fecund a decade was the 1890s.
十九世纪九十年代被当今视为创造力旺盛的十年。
The most fecund men were those with partners six years younger. )
那些伴侣小他们六岁的男性,孩子数量最多。
Examples of fecund in a Sentence
a fecund breed of cattle
the Franklin stove, bifocals, and the lightning rod are just a few of the inventions that we owe to the fecund creativity of Benjamin Franklin
Others omit her altogether, capturing the natural realm unblemished by human presence, a fecund environment dotted with snakes and birds and fungi.
—Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2024
Granting all perturbation and backsliding, generous lives had been lived on that fecund soil, and a generous spirit inhered in it.
—Marilynne Robinson, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
This also happened to be one of the most creatively fecund periods in the city’s history.
—Ned Resnikoff, The New Republic, 2 Sep. 2023
Older females were significantly less fecund than young mature females, and were not more fecund than subadult females.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2018