APA Dictionary of Psychology
fecundity
- n.
- in biology, a measure of the number of offspring produced by an individual organism over a given time.
- 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.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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