A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

fecundus (foecundus),-a,-um (adj.A): fecund, fertile, productive of offspring; fruitful; (of plants) rich (in fruit), bountiful, abundant, prolific; (of the earth) productive of vegetation game, etc., fertile; (of soil) fertile, rich; fertilizing, giving life; see fertile;

- mericarpiis subaequalibus, utroque foecundo subaequaliter acute 4-5-costato (F. Mueller), with the mericarps nearly the same, each one when fertile nearly equally acute, 4-5-ribbed.

- flores foemini formae duplicís, omnes foecundi; ii serierum inferiorum circumscriptione fere figuram cordatam praebentes (F. Mueller), the female [i.e. pistillate] flowers of a double shape, all fertile; those of the lower rows displaying in outline slmost a heart-shaped figure.

- Gemmas appello Arborum & Fruticum foetus [nom.pl.] novellos, quos quotannis, ut dixi, aestate pariunt, squammosis tegumentis velut fecundis obvolutos, in quibus per totam 'hyemem latitant, adversus aeris injurias securi (Ray), I call [i.e.designate] the young fetuses the ‘gemmae’ [i.e. ‘buds’] of trees and shrubs, which every year [i.e. annually], as I have said, come forth in summer, enveloped by scaley [i.e. ‘large-scaled] integuments just as if fertile [i.e. pregnant], in which they lay secure [i.e. hidden] throughout the entire winter, safe from the adverse injuries of the air [i.e. atmosphere].