Infrugiferous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Infrugiferous is an adjective meaning Not bearing fruit; fruitless.
Meaning
Not bearing fruit; fruitless.
Example Sentences
There are two ſorts of Pomegranate-Trees, the one wild, which is florigerous, but withall infrugiferous, the other domeſticall, whereof there are three differences, one beares acid Pomegranates, another ſweet ones; and the third dulco-acid ones, […]
Jove has placed into the hand of Judgment the Sword and the Crown; with the latter she rewards those who do good works and abstain from evil; with the former she punishes those who are inclined toward crimes, and are useless and infrugiferous plants.
We are consequently desirous of administering—in no ratiocinative spirit—a jobation to those psittaceous individuals whose ebullient verbosity manifests itself in an infrugiferous efflorescen[c]e of language, and a polysyllabilification^([sic]) of monosyllables.
Synonyms for infrugiferous
Depending on context, synonyms include fruitless, infructiferous.
Antonyms for infrugiferous
Common opposites include fructiferous, frugiferous, fruitful.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include saliferous, infusorial, infeudation, viruliferous, ferriferous, inflective.
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