Having the power to fertilize, make fertile, or produce offspring; relating to or promoting fecundation.
From 'fecundate' plus the adjectival suffix '-ive,' ultimately from Latin 'fecundativus.' This rare adjective appears in specialized scientific and medical literature.
This uncommon adjective appears in historical medical texts where doctors were trying to identify substances with 'fecundative properties'—it's a word that reveals how older science imagined reproduction as a magical, transferable power!
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