fructuary

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fructuarius.

Noun

fructuary (plural fructuaries)

  1. One who enjoys the profits or increase of anything.
    • Prynne
      Kings are not proprietors nor fructuaries.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fructuary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)