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fecund
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synonyms: philoprogenitive, pullulate, proletaneous ???
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Definition:very prolific and fruitful
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And yet, despite this terrible roll of death, despite the enormous killing of the past and the enormous killing of the present, there are to-day alive on the planet a billion and three quarters of human beings. Our immediate conclusion is that man is exceedingly fecund and very tough. Never before have there been so many people in the world.
Jack London. A Collection of Stories
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Eurasia is protected by its vast land spaces, Oceania by the width of the Atlantic and the Pacific, Eastasia by the fecundity and industriousness of its inhabitants.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The more crowded his canvas, the more fluent his brush. Yet this fecundity does not seem mere facility, as it does occasionally with Jules Romains, and it is more than a natural overflow of fancy as it often is with Dickens.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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the fecund tropical smell that he had never forgotten, that to him was more evocative than any madeleine,
Junot Díaz. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007)
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