fructiferous

[ fruhk-tif-er-uhs, frook-, frook- ]

adjective

1. fruit-bearing; producing fruit.

Other Words From

• fruc·tifer·ous·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of fructiferous¹

From the Latin word frūctiferus, dating back to 1625–35. See fructi-, -fer, -ous

Example Sentences

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

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 Project Gutenberg

Thus he valued science because it is "fructiferous," to use Bacon's word, making for the amelioration of life; but he valued it still more because it is "luciferous," "for the light it throws on our own nature and the nature of the Universe."

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

Although it is sometimes recommended we would not advise to withhold water at the roots for the purpose of starting them into fruit; for if, by proper management, they are good, healthy plants, they will have formed their fructiferous parts before this time, and therefore should not be allowed to get dry, but be watered when they require it with tepid water.

From Project Gutenberg

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