† fructuoseadj.
Obsolete.
= fructuous adj.
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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
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 181/2 Frutuose or full of frute..fructuosus.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (1893) i. xv. 17 What euer be doon of charite..is fructuose.
1524 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VI. 317 He may perceve the Kinges recommendations..to be unto him fructuose and to good purpose.
1727–36 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
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adj.c1440- to get one's panties in a wad
- to get one's paws on
- to get one's rag out
- to get one's rocks off
- to get one's seven-pennyworth
- to get one's sevenpennyworth
- to get one's shirt out
- to get one's shit together
- to get one's skates on
- to get one's tail down
- to get one's teeth into
- to get one's thumb out of a person's mouth
- to get one's thumb out of mouth
- to get one's way
- to get one's way with
- to get one's ways
- to get one's whack
- to get one's wills
- to get one's ya-yas out
- to get one's yayas out
- to get one'the call
- to get oneself a name
- to get oneself gone
- to get oneself organized
- to get oneself out