English

Adjective

foodful ‎(comparative more foodful, superlative most foodful)

1. (dated) Supplying food.
   • 1720, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer, 1899 ed. edition:

     Athens the fair, where great Erectheus sway'd, That owed his nurture to the blue-eyed maid, But from the teeming furrow took his birth, The mighty offspring of the foodful earth.

   • Wordsworth

     Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.

   • 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:

     Of all the conifers […] , this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important.

   • 1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land Of Little Rain:

     It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.