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fructiferous, a.|frʌkˈtɪfərəs|
[f. L. frūctifer (f. frūctus fruit + -fer bearing) + -ous.]
Bearing or producing fruit; fertilizing.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 85 All other fructiferous trees. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 217 Inundations which fertilize all Egypt, and serve instead of fructiferous rains. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 61 The finely divided, loamy or fructiferous part of the soil. 1857H. Miller Test. Rocks xi. 433 None of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike.
Hence frucˈtiferously adv.
1626A. Speed Adam out of E. xvi. (1659) 134 You may sometimes cast the water that drayneth from the Muck, upon the muck heaps again, which will..desend to the former receptacle more fructiferously. 1635Heywood Hierarch. ii. Comm. 98 Neither more fructiferously can any thing be found than the holy Trinitie. |