| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Fruitful; productive; profitable.[Websters]
2. Being fruitful, productive, fertile, fecund or prolific. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb fructuously.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (fructuously) | 1. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective fructuous.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "FRUCTUOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1388. (references) |
| Etymology:Fructuous \Fruc"tu*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression fructuosus: cf, French fructueux.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: FRUCTUOUS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Fruitful; fertile; also, impregnating with fertility.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Wiktionary | [Adjective] (rare) fruitful 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. (references) | ||
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