fetiferous
fetiferous adjective: producing young; fruitful, productive.
Adjective
fetiferous (comparative more fetiferous, superlative most fetiferous)
- Producing young; fruitful, productive.
- […]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27
- Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp.1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, London, page 593
Examples of fetiferous in a sentence
- Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]1922, Clifford Bax, (poem title not given), a. 1922, quoted in Arthur Melville Clark, The Realistic Revolt of Modern Poetry, London, page...
- The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31:
- Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available.2014, James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World In Motion, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 452:
Forms of fetiferous
| comparative | more fetiferous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fetiferous |
Origin of fetiferous
From Latin fētifer (“causing fruitfulness”) + -ous, from fētus (“pregnant, fruitful”) + -fer (“bearing, carrying, bringing”).
Words that rhyme with fetiferous
- melliferous
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- magnetiferous
- mammiferous
- mortiferous
- multiferous
- papyriferous
- pediferous
- pestiferous
- pomiferous
- poriferous
- radiferous
- salutiferous
- seminiferous
- stelliferous
- umbelliferous
- acetabuliferous
- acidiferous
- aeriferous
- agatiferous
- albuminiferous
- aliferous
- alkaliferous
- alumiferous
- aluminiferous
- amberiferous
- amentiferous
- ammonitiferous
- amygdaliferous
- amyliferous
- anatiferous
- angeliferous
- antenniferous
- anthraciferous
- argentiferous
- argilliferous
- armiferous
- astriferous
- auriferous
- bacciferous
- balaniferous
- balsamiferous
- belliferous
- biliferous
- bituminiferous
- branchiferous
- bulbiferous
- byssiferous
- cadmiferous
- calamiferous
Questions about fetiferous
- What does fetiferous mean?
- Fetiferous means producing young; fruitful, productive.
- How do you use fetiferous in a sentence?
- Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]
- What part of speech is fetiferous?
- Fetiferous is an adjective.
Words near fetiferous in the dictionary
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