Fructuous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Fructuous is an adjective meaning (rare) fruitful.
Meaning
(rare) fruitful.
Example Sentences
1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.
As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fruitful, fructiferous, frugiferous, fruticous, fruited, fructed.
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