fructuous

English

Etymology

From Latin fructuōsus.

Adjective

fructuous (comparative more fructuous, superlative most fructuous)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• fructuously
• fructuousness