Fructuous
adj
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 fruitful rare
"1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople."
Example
More examples"1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople."
Etymology
From Latin fructuōsus.
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