Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Fruitful; productive.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fruitful; fertile; productive.
- Causing fertility.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Fruitful; productive; profitable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
fruitful
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The awful surrender of the fructuous mind that lives on paper, lives for paper, paper and ink and nothing else!
'Dictation' 2008
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Toward the est partye of Prestre Johnes lond, is an yle gode an gret, that men clepen Taprobane, that is fulle noble and fulle fructuous: and the kyng thereof is fulle ryche, and is undre the obeyssance of Prestre
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And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.
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And thoughe that men bryngen of the plauntes, for to planten in other contrees, thei growen wel and fayre, but thei bryngen forthe no fructuous thing: and the leves of bawme ne fallen noughte.
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And though that men bring of the plants, for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair; but they bring forth no fructuous thing, and the leaves of balm fall not.
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And there is a full fair vale and a fructuous; and there is a fair city and a good that men clepe
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Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd2 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.
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Well may that land be called delectable and a fructuous land, that was be-bled and moisted with the precious blood of our
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And thoughe that men bryngen of the plauntes, for to planten in other contrees, thei growen wel and fayre, but thei bryngen forthe no fructuous thing: and the leves of bawme ne fallen noughte.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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