And what prompts her at three weeks of age to shrug off her nurse's togs and venture out into the world as a forager, a tireless gatherer of nectar and pollen, and the happens…tance key to floral fecundity? (MORE)
In terms of reproduction, fecundity means the biological ability to have a particular quantity offspring. Fertility means the actual use of fecundity to produce the offspring.… Both terms can be used either of an individual or a population. In everyday speech, most people use the term "fertility" to cover both meanings. But when needing to distinguish the ability to have offspring from the actual use of the ability, "fertility" should be used for reproductive ability, and "fecundity" for actual number or rate of offspring. (MORE)
Fecundity is the ability reproduce and is important in population ecology. In obstetrics and gynecology fucundability is the probability of being pregnant in a single menstrua…l cycle, fecundity is having a live birth within a single cycle. The index is a mathematical formula projecting the mean pregnancy rate of first time mothers in certain months of marriage. (MORE)
No, they do not show the same fecundity. Fecundity means the ability to produce offspring in great numbers. Not all species give birth to numerous or even multiple offspring. …For instance, a dog has anywhere from 3 to 7 puppies on the average birth. A horse, on the other hand, has one foal at a time. All other factors being equal, a dog--because of its ability to produce multiple offspring (as many as 30 or 35 pups) over a period of 4 to 5 years--would be consider more fecund than a horse which, during the same time period, would only produce 4 to 5 offspring. (MORE)
Fecund always strikes me as being a dirty word, even though it is not. It just has a very odd sound. It means richly fertile, prolific, highly imaginative.