ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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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