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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fecundity \Fe*cun"di*ty\, n. [L. fecunditas: cf F.
f['e]condit['e]. See {Fecund}.]
1. The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness;
especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of
reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.
2. The power of germinating; as in seeds.
3. The power of bringing forth in abundance; fertility;
richness of invention; as the fecundity of God's creative
power. --Bentley.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
fecundity
n 1: the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
[syn: {fruitfulness}]
2: the state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring
[syn: {fertility}] [ant: {sterility}]
3: the quality of something that causes or assists healthy
growth [syn: {fruitfulness}] [ant: {fruitlessness}]
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