• fecund • Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Fertile, capable
of producing offspring. 2. Fruitful, intellectually productive,
capable of producing new ideas. Notes: Today's word is a very
popular and productive one. It comes with a noun, fecundity, but
also with a derived verb, fecundate. We might fecundate an
infertile woman or the souls of those we encounter. This verb
offers an adjective, fecundable, which in turn provides yet
another noun, fecundability, the ability to make fecund or to
conceive. In Play: Today's Good Word is most often used in
reference to the fertility of women and female animals: "Randy
Farmer hauled his sow over to his neighbor's boar several times
for breeding before deciding that his sow simply was not
fecund." (Both animals became moody when Randy halted the
trips.) However, it is also often used in reference to abstract
birth: "And just whose fecund mind came up with the idea that
our company should develop an ejector seat for helicopters?"
Word History: English "acquired" this w