Foodful
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈfuːdfəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Foodful is an adjective meaning (dated) Supplying food.
Meaning
(dated) Supplying food.
Example Sentences
Of all the conifers[…], this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important.
It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.
[…] Athens the fair, where great Erectheus ſway'd, / That ow'd his Nurture to the blue-ey'd Maid, / But from the teeming Furrow took his Birth, / The mighty Offspring of the foodful Earth.
Mid stormy vapours ever driving by, / Where ospreys, cormorants, and herons cry; / Where hardly given the hopeless waste to cheer, / Denied the bread of life the foodful ear, / Dwindles the pear on autumn's latest spray, / And apple sickens pale in summer's ray; […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superfoody, fotive, famisht, figgy, faunated, famelick.
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