| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class I. Words Expressing Abstract Relations | | Section VIII. Causation | | 3. Power in Operation |
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| 168. Productiveness. |
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| NOUN: | PRODUCTIVENESS &c. adj.; fecundity, fertilization, fertility, luxuriance, uberty [obs.].
[COMPARISONS] milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey.
AFTERMATH, second crop, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish [dial. Eng.], eddish [dial. Eng.], rowen.
MULTIPLICATION, multiparity, propagation, procreation; superfetation, pregnancy, pullulation [rare], fructification.
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| VERB: | MAKE PRODUCTIVE &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, pullulate, generate, fertilize, spermatize, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, spawn, multiply; produce [See Production]; conceive.
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| ADJECTIVE: | PRODUCTIVE, prolific, copious; teeming, teemful [dial.]; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous [obs.], fructuous [rare], plenteous, proliferous, fructiferous, fruitbearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous.
PROCREANT, procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic, inceptive, originative; multiparous; omnific; propagable.
parturient (producing) [See Production]; profitable (useful) [See Utility].
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