procreant

See also: procréant

English

Etymology

Latin procreans

Adjective

procreant (comparative more procreant, superlative most procreant)

That procreates.
Of or pertaining to procreation; procreative.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:
  His pendent bed and procreant cradle

Noun

procreant (plural procreants)

One who, or that which, procreates.
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 70:
  Leave procreants alone, and ſhut the dore, / Coffe, or cry hem, if any body come, […]

Anagrams

copartner, per contra

Catalan

Verb

procreant

gerund of procrear

Latin

Verb

prōcreant

third-person plural present active indicative of prōcreō

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