fructifier

[ fruhk-tuh-fahy-er, frook-, frook- ]

noun

1. a person or thing that fructifies:

   Fructifiers were added to enrich the dirt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fructifier¹

First recorded in 1825–35; fructify + -er ¹

Example Sentences

There we see the mitred man-god with rod and basket adoring the solar Fructifier, hovering over the fruitful tree from which spring thirteen full buds, whilst behind him stands another adoring winged deity backed by a star, a dove, and a yoni.

From Project Gutenberg

After the heat of the day, when the sun has seemed a destroyer rather than a fructifier, the slender crescent rising over the plain is like a girl dressed in silver.

From Project Gutenberg

According to M. Boisduval, an Italian species, V. Ruppii, never bears in France "des fleurs bien apparentes, ce qui ne l'empeche pas de fructifier."

From Project Gutenberg