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Fecundity

The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and in great numbers.

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Creativeness 76% connected

The quality of being creative.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Fertility 76% connected

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quic…

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Productivity 76% connected

The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.

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Prolificacy 76% connected

Prolificness.

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Rankness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being rank.

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Richness 76% connected

The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).

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Fecund 74% connected

Fruitful in children; prolific.

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Fecund 74% connected

Fruitful in children; prolific.

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Fertile 74% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

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Fertile 74% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

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Fruitful 74% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

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Fruitful 74% connected

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or soil; a fruitfu…

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Prolific 74% connected

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing…

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Prolific 74% connected

Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing…

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Fertile 66% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

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Fertile 66% connected

Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land or…

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Infertile 66% connected

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

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Infertile 66% connected

Not fertile; not productive; barren; sterile; as, an infertile soil.

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Sterile 66% connected

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

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Sterile 66% connected

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

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Unfertile 66% connected

Not fertile; infertile; barren.

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Unfertile 66% connected

Not fertile; infertile; barren.

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Synonym 1

Fertility 92% connected

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quic…

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Barrenness 94% connected

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

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Barrenness 94% connected

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

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Sterility 94% connected

The quality or condition of being sterile.

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Sterility 94% connected

The quality or condition of being sterile.

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the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Affinity noun · 78% connection

(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "i…

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Archi- unknown · 78% connection

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as…

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Bison noun · 78% connection

The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which form…

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Dash verb · 78% connection

To form or sketch rapidly or carelessly; to execute rapidly, or with careless haste; -- with off; as, to dash off a review or sermon.

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Doe noun · 78% connection

A female deer or antelope; specifically, the female of the fallow deer, of which the male is called a buck. Also applied to the female…

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Even adjective · 78% connection

Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers.

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Fatness noun · 78% connection

Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.

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Fission noun · 78% connection

A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…

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Gemmiparous adjective · 78% connection

Producing buds; reproducing by buds. See Gemmation, 1.

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Hurtle verb · 78% connection

To move rapidly; to wheel or rush suddenly or with violence; to whirl round rapidly; to skirmish.

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Infecundity noun · 78% connection

Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility; unproductiveness.

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Lotto noun · 78% connection

A game of chance, played with cards, on which are inscribed numbers, and any contrivance (as a wheel containing numbered balls) for de…

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