Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Bearing fruit.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing or producing fruit.
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- adjective
bearing fruit
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Adiantum and fructiferous mosses, and a curious Primuloid plant out of flower, with a curious Clematis.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Paul's genius was absorbent, fructiferous, prolific of golden dreams.
The Orchard of Tears Sax Rohmer 1921
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"The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death - fraught pestilence."
Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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It has, however, proportionally a stouter stem than Lycopodium; its leaves, when seen in profile, seem more rectilinear and thin; and none of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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You have to find the right business idea for you, then you marry it (build the business) and then you make it fructiferous (generates revenue for you).
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You have to find the right business idea for you, then you marry it (build the business) and then you make it fructiferous (generates revenue for you).
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_ We, in our time, have heard of Sheffield ladies having three children at birth; but we know no other case, but that of the aforesaid Mrs. Birch, which countenances the fructiferous fame which they have obtained in some circles. "
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