fructuously

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English

Etymology

From fructuous +‎ -ly.

Adverb

fructuously (comparative more fructuously, superlative most fructuously)

  1. (archaic) fruitfully
    • 1921, Daniel Frederick MacMartin, Thirty Years in Hell: Or, The Confessions of a Drug Fiend, page 96:
      As our ship came within sight of and skirted the shores of the Persian Gulf, just before entering the Suez Canal at Suez, I impulsively thought of the poppy which is fructuously husbanded here, which are chaliced and flame to red, and the scarlet cups of which are filled with sunshine and bitterness.