fructuous

American  

[fruhk-choo-uhs] / ˈfrʌk tʃu əs /

adjective

1. productive; fertile; profitable.

   a fructuous region, rich in natural resources.

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fructuous British  

/ ˈfrʊk-, ˈfrʌktjʊəs /

adjective

1. productive or fruitful; fertile

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Other Word Forms

• fructuously adverb
• fructuousness noun
• unfructuous adjective

Etymology

Origin of fructuous

1350–1400; Middle English < Latin frūctuōsus, derivative of 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

Well may that land be called delectable and a fructuous land, that was be-bled and moisted with the precious blood of our Lord Jesu Christ; the which is the same land that our Lord behight us in heritage. 

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