procreant

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Poetry had with them "neither buttress nor coigne of vantage to make its pendant bed and procreant cradle."

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney

An odour of resinous gum is wafted from them, and upon one of the slender sprays a pair of diminutive goldcrests have hung their procreant cradle.

From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous

The male incubates and rears the young; and the procreant habits seem altogether like those of Rhea americana.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

But this "procreant cradle" of a bird in the arms of the fanged desert growth softens its aspect a little.

From The Last Harvest by Burroughs, John

Indeed, and were there not For each its procreant atoms, could things have Each its unalterable mother old?

From On the Nature of Things by Leonard, William Ellery