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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.
Definition 2024
fructuous
fructuous
English
Adjective
fructuous (comparative more fructuous, superlative most fructuous)
- (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.
- 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Derived terms
- fructuously
- fructuousness