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Webster 1913 Edition


Fructuous

Fruc′tu-ous

,
Adj.
[L.
fructuosus
: cf, F.
fructueux
.]
Fruitful; productive; profitable.
[Obs.]
Fruc′tu-ous-ly
,
adv.
Fruc′tu-ous-ness
,
Noun.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Fructuous

FRUC'TUOUS

,
Adj.
Fruitful; fertile; also, impregnating with fertility.

Definition 2024


fructuous

fructuous

English

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.

Derived terms

  • fructuously
  • fructuousness