fructuous

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English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

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