Productive of fruit. Of trees, etc.: Bearing plenty of fruit. Of soils, etc.: Fertile. Of rain, etc.: Causing fertility.

A fruit-bearing tree, a fruit tree.

in senses of the verb; also †Heraldry = fructed, adj.

Fruitful.

= fructuous, adj.

Capable of bearing fruit.

Bearing or producing fruit; fertilizing.

Fruit-bearing, fruitful.

= frugiferous, adj.

Of a seed: fertilized, capable of germinating; (of a plant) prolific, fruitful. Obsolete.

Of an animal, person, plant, etc.: producing, or able to produce, many offspring, fruits, etc.; highly productive; fruitful. Of soil, land, etc…

Bearing fruit; fruiting body n. = fruit-body n. at fruit, n. compounds 2; also occasionally applied to spore-producing bacteria.

Of a branch, tree, etc.: Having fruit upon it.

Capable of fructifying; produced by fructification.