fructuous

[ fruhk-choo-uhs ]

adjective

1. productive; fertile; profitable:

   a fructuous region, rich in natural resources.

fructuous

/ ˈfrʊk-; ˈfrʌktjʊəs /

adjective

1. productive or fruitful; fertile

Derived Forms

• ˈfructuously, adverb
• ˈfructuousness, noun

Other Words From

• fructu·ous·ly adverb
• fructu·ous·ness noun
• un·fructu·ous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of fructuous¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin frūctuōsus, derivative of frūctus fruit; -ous

Word History and Origins

Origin of fructuous¹

C14: from Latin frūctuōsus , from frūctus fruit + -ous

Example Sentences

Another branch of this umbrageous if not fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune.

From Project Gutenberg

Those few, passing, precious words had fallen like fructuous seed and struck deep root in Gaston's spirit; and, as the germs shot upward, every branch was covered with blossoms of hope which perfumed his nights and days.

From Project Gutenberg

Contrast the fructuous and sterile eras, Show, monarchy its uncouth cub licks Out of the bear's shape to the chimæra's— Pure Art's birth being still the republic's!

From Project Gutenberg

In his foresaid Book, De Regimine Principis, he thus writes of him: But welaway is mine heart wo, That the honour of English Tongue is dead; Of which I wont was counsaile haue and reed: O Master dere, and Fadre reuerent: My Master Chaucer Floure of Eloquence, Mirror of fructuous entendement: O vniuersal fadre of Science: Alas that thou thine excellent Prudence In thy Bed mortal mightest not bequeath.

From Project Gutenberg

And though that men bring of the plants, for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair; but they bring forth no fructuous thing, and the leaves of balm fall not. 

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