fertility

     

Fertility is the natural capability of giving life. As a measure, "Fertility Rate" is the number of chilren born per couple, person or population. This is different from fecundity, which is defined as the potential for reproduction (influenced by gamete production, fertilisation and carrying a pregnancy to term). In the English language, the term was originally applied only to females, but increasingly is applied to males as well, as common understanding of reproductive mechanisms increases and the importance of the male role is better known. Infertility is a deficient fertility.

Trivia about fertility

  • (Jon of the Clue Crew is standing in front of a painting.) Van Eyck filled his Arnolfini portrait with symbolism. Both the color green and the woman's pose to exaggerate her stomach are meant to indicate this, though, sadly, she never had any children
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Oak Park, a suburb of Chicago, IL.) The symbolism Frank Lloyd Wright used on this house includes the stork for this quality, which is fitting as Wright raised 6 kids here
  • In Rome's festival of Lupercus, god of this quality, women were hit with goatskins to transmit it to them
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew in Belize) Xunantunich means "stone woman" or "maiden of the rock" & is associated with this 9-letter quality