fructiferousadj.
/ˌfrʌkˈtɪf(ə)rəs/, U.S. /ˌfrəkˈtɪfərəs/ Bearing or producing fruit; fertilizing.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective]
fatty1590
fructiferous1632
fattening1697
fat1707
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful
fruitfula1300
birthel-treea1325
fructified14..
fructive14..
fructuosec1440
fructifiable1623
fructiferous1632
frugiferous1633
frugiferent1656
pregnant1669
prolific1738
fruiting1778
fruited1786
fruitening1845
fructificative1887
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [adjective] > bearing fruit
fructiferous1632
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 85 All other fructiferous trees.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 217 Inundations which fertilize all Egypt, and serve instead of fructiferous rains.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 61 The finely divided, loamy or fructiferous part of the soil.
a1856 H. Miller Testimony of Rocks (1857) xi. 433 None of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike.
Derivatives
frucˈtiferously adv.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > [adverb]
fructuouslya1382
fertilelya1586
pregnantly1593
fruitfully1608
fructiferously1635
exuberantly1650
teemingly1651
prolifically1735
prolificly1851
resultfully1860
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ii. Comm. 98 Neither more fructiferously can any thing be found than the holy Trinitie.
1659 A. Speed Adam out of Eden xvi. 134 You may sometimes cast the water that drayneth from the Muck, upon the muck heaps again, which will..desend to the former receptacle more fructiferously.
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