Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FE-CUND'I-TY
FE-CUND'I-TY, n. [L. fœcunditas.]
- Fruitfulness; quality of producing fruit; particularly, the quality in female animals of producing young in great numbers.
- The power of producing or bringing forth. It is said that the seeds of some plants retain their fecundity forty years. Ray.
- Fertility; the power of bringing forth in abundance; richness of invention.
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