"Procreant" Quotes from Famous Books
... summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved masonry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze. Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have ... — The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs
... impregnate; fecundate, fecundify^; teem, multiply; produce &c 161; conceive. Adj. productive, prolific; teeming, teemful^; fertile, fruitful, frugiferous^, fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous^. procreant^, procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic; multiparous; omnific^, propagable. parturient &c (producing) 161; ... — Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |