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fecundity

fecundity

n.

1. in biology, a measure of the number of offspring produced by an individual organism over a given time.

2. in demography, the general capacity of a human population to have offspring. A below-average capacity is termed subfecundity. Compare birth rate; fertility. —fecund adj.

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