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English
Etymology
From Latin fructuōsus.
Adjective
fructuous (comparative more fructuous, superlative most fructuous)
- (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.
1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves:As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
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