overfruitful
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overfruitful (comparative more overfruitful, superlative most overfruitful)
- Excessively fruitful.
- 1668, John Dryden, Essay of Dramatick Poesie:
- Rhyme bounds and circumscribes an overfruitful fancy.
- 1980, Reuben Aldridge Guild, Early history of Brown University, page 19:
- In the Northern colonies shelter had to be sought from the storms and frosts of a rigorous climate. Food had to be gained mainly by the sweat of the brow, out of a soil in many parts not overfruitful, and everywhere needing labor and care.