Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Producing fruit or grain; fruitful; fructiferous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous.
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- adjective
bearing fruit
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Examples
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It is almost the only frugiferous nocturnal bird yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls.
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It is almost the only frugiferous nocturnal bird yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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All frugiferous animals have need of agriculture as well as man, but none of them have been endued with the sense, or the manner of prosecuting it.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps Richard Joseph Sullivan 1794
Gammerstang commented on the word frugiferous
(adjective) - (1) Producing fruit or corn. From Latin fruges, fruits, and fero, to bear.
--Rev. John Boag's Imperial Lexicon of the English Language, c.1850
(2) Fructiferous. From Latin frugifer, frux, frugis, and voro, to eat.
--John Ridpath's Home Reference Library, 1898
(3) Frugiverous, that which devoureth fruit, corn, &c. From Latin.
--Nathaniel Bailey's Etymological English Dictionary, 1749
January 16, 2018