fecund

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The primary species of rat in both New York and Los Angeles is Rattus norvegicus, the brown rat: a midsize rodent that has a whiplike tail and is resilient, intuitive and remarkably fecund.

From New York Times

When she wrote “Death on the Nile” in 1937, colonial troops were beginning to withdraw, and Egypt was entering a fecund cultural period.

From Los Angeles Times

“All of nature is vile and fecund and touching itself,” she says with lustful wonder, recounting a time she watched one goat mount another.

From New York Times

But, in compiling my list for some of the smokingest takes of 2021 — a year when boredom and national unease made the hot takes industry especially fecund — I saw a theme emerging.

From Salon

After beavers almost went extinct by the mid-19th century, fashions shifted and Canada’s fecund beavers rebounded.

From New York Times