English Dictionary

fecundity

IPA（発音記号）

/fɪˈkʌndɪtɪ/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常

Ability to produce offspring. / Ability to cause growth or increase. / Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production. / Rate of production of young by a female.

日本語の意味

繁殖能力（産卵・子孫を多数生み出す能力） / 成長・増加を引き起こす能力 / 出産量や産卵率、出産能力の量的評価

The biologist measured the fecundity of the island's bird population to assess its recovery.

生物学者は島の鳥の個体群の繁殖能力を測定して、その回復を評価した。

意味（1）

Ability to produce offspring.

In the early days the reviewers compared him to the late Douglas Adams, but then Terry went on to write books as enthusiastically as Douglas avoided writing them, and now, if there is any comparison to be made of anything from the formal rules of a Pratchett novel to the sheer prolific fecundity of the man, it might be to P. G. Wodehouse.

意味（2）

Ability to cause growth or increase.

[I]t would not be very much less absurd for someone to write about New York City after having spent only a few years or a few decades in this metropolis of inexhaustible adventure, of terrifying emotional fecundity, of uncapturable character.

意味（3）

Number, rate, or capacity of offspring production.

意味（4）

Rate of production of young by a female.

fecundities （ plural ）