|
|
Definition of Infecund
1. a. Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile.
Definition of Infecund
1. Adjective. infertile ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infecund
1. barren [adj] - See also: barren
Medical Definition of Infecund
1. Unfruitful; not producing young; barren; infertile. Origin: L. Infecundus: cf. F. Infecond. See In- not, and Fecund. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infecund
Literary usage of Infecund
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Functions and disorders of the reproductive organs by William Acton (1888)
"infecund SEMEN ey may do for hacks ; and here often the same bad temper interferes.
... I.—infecund SEMEN hough the terms are often used loosely as ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"How safe and agreeable a conservatory the earth is to vegetables, is manifest
from their rotting, drying, or being rendered infecund, in the waters, ..."
3. The Theory and Practice of Cattle-breeding by William Warfield (1889)
"That were not to be expected; it is only in a proportionate degree, being as
infecund as compared with a vigorous bull as a female when compared with a ..."
4. Barr's Buffon. Buffon's Natural History: Containing a Theory of the Earth, a by Georges Louis Leclerc Buffon (1792)
"... are found in the infecund 'eggs which the hen produces without the ...
that this little cicatrice •is found in every fecund or infecund egg, ..."
Other Resources:
Basque