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

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctuōsus, from frūctus, fruit; see fruit.]

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