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Philoprogenitive

Philoprogenitive \Phil`o*pro*gen"i*tive\, a. Having the love of offspring; fond of children.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
philoprogenitive

"prolific," 1815, irregularly formed from philo- + Latin progenit-, past participle stem of progignere (see progeny). Related: Philoprogenitiveness. Important words among the phrenologists.

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philoprogenitive

a. 1 prolific, or producing many offspring. 2 loving one's offspring.

Usage examples of "philoprogenitive".

From behind a hedge came the sound of a lawnmower, plied perhaps by the philoprogenitive Mr Corrigan.

The term means nothing more than philoprogenitive urges deflected into channels that possess no generative significance.

I can say is that the antlers must be doing more than pouring out philoprogenitive hormones into your bloodstream.

I most admire, the strength of your philoprogenitive instinct, or your magnanimity in the face of this disappointment.

I recommend those who have cats with philoprogenitive proclivities, instead of drowning the kittens, to eat them.

This was to be the use to me of the lessons of the precocious, affectionate, and philoprogenitive Harkness.

And what have they discovered, beyond the elementary fact that clams have a fully developed philoprogenitive tendency, to put it that way, or, to come right out with it, a grasp of fundamentals surpassed only by some of the mammalian bipeds, such as business men, politicians and any one else with the time and money?

Herr Professor Luitpold Blumenduft tendered medical evidence to the effect that the instantaneous fracture of the cervical vertebrae and consequent scission of the spinal cord would, according to the best approved tradition of medical science, be calculated to inevitably produce in the human subject a violent ganglionic stimulus of the nerve centres of the genital apparatus, thereby causing the elastic pores of the corpora cavernosa to rapidly dilate in such a way as to instantaneously facilitate the flow of blood to that part of the human anatomy known as the penis or male organ resulting in the phenomenon which has been denominated by the faculty a morbid upwards and outwards philoprogenitive erection in articulo mortis per diminutionem capitis.