fructuous

English

Etymology

From Latin fructuōsus.

Adjective

fructuous (comparative more fructuous, superlative most fructuous)

1. (rare) fruitful
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation

     ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.

   • 1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves:

     As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.

Derived terms

• fructuously
• fructuousness
• infructuous
• unfructuous