fecundity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/    美 /fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ability to produce offspring. uncountable,usually
    — In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.
  2. Ability to cause growth or increase. uncountable,usually
    — [I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.
  3. Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production. uncountable,usually
    — The soil spawned humanity, as it bred frogs in the Rains, and the gap of the sickness of one season was filled to overflowing by the fecundity of the next.
  4. Rate of production of young by a female. uncountable,usually

词形变化

fecundities plural fœcundity alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
antifecundity infecundity subfecundity superfecundity
相关词
fecund fecundation

词源

From Latin fēcunditās (“fruitfulness, fertility”), from fēcundus, equivalent to fecund + -ity.
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