fecund

Du latin fecundus.

fecund

1. Fécond, capable d’assurer une descendance.
   • The number of children per woman depends, as has been said, on biological and social factors which determone: (1) the frequency of births during a woman’s fecund period, and (2) the portion of the fecund period--between puberty and menopause--effectively utilized for reproduction. — (Massimo Livi Bacci, A Concise History of World Population‎, 2001, page 9)
2. (Figuré) Fécond, porteur de nouvelles idées ou innovations.
   • This idea of Aristotle’s has proved marvellously fecund; and in truth it is the only idea covering quite the whole area of cenoscopy that has shown any marked uberosity. — (Charles Sanders Pierce, "The Basis of Pragmatism in the Normative Sciences", in The Essential Pierce: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1906, volume II, page 373)

• Fecund est un terme plutôt technique et le synonyme fertile plutôt général.

Capable d’assurer une descendance 

• fertile

Porteur de nouvelles idées ou innovations 

• fertile
• productive

• fecundity

• (Royaume-Uni), (États-Unis) : \ˈfiːkənd\, \ˈfɛkənd\

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Du latin fecundus.

fecund

1. Fécond.