fructiferous
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- fructiferously adverb
Etymology
Origin of fructiferous
From the Latin word frūctiferus, dating back to 1625–35. See fructi-, -fer, -ous
Example Sentences
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For years, as an early-warning alert system, the county agricultural people had been hanging Medfly traps hither and thither among our pretty, fructiferous trees — little A-frame-shaped cardboard doohickeys with a dab of fly attractant.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2024
Several twining species of Mikania adorn the forests of Shoa; two fructiferous Cacaliae, full of a balsamic sap, and one Klenia, exhibit the brightest scarlet in the jungles of Efát.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
It has, however, proportionally a stouter stem than Lycopodium; its leaves, when seen in profile, seem more rectilinear and thin; and none of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike.
From The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed by Miller, Hugh
Asperùgo procúmbens, L., a European annual, well marked by its much enlarged membranaceous and veiny fructiferous calyx, has sparingly appeared in waste grounds about New York and Philadelphia, and at Pipestone, Minn. 1.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Paul's genius was absorbent, fructiferous, prolific of golden dreams.
From The Orchard of Tears by Rohmer, Sax
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