foodful

Syllables: food·fulUK/ˈfuːdfəl/US/ˈfudfəl/

foodful adjective: supplying food.

Adjective

foodful (comparative more foodful, superlative most foodful)

(dated) Supplying food.
- […] Athens the fair, where great Erectheus ſway'd, / That ow'd his Nurture to the blue-ey'd Maid, / But from the teeming Furrow took his Birth, / The mighty Offspring of the foodful Earth.1715, Homer, “Book II”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 31, lines 657–660
- The democratick commonwealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. […] Whenever, in ſtates which have had a democratick baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods were as violent, as in the end they were ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm...1791 August 3, [Edmund Burke], An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 120

Of all the conifers[…], this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important.1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
It seems that most seeds are foodful in the arid regions, most berries edible, and many shrubs good for firewood with the sap in them.1903, Mary Hunter Austin, The Land of Little Rain:

comparative	more foodful
superlative	most foodful

From food + -ful.

What does foodful mean?: Foodful means supplying food.
How do you use foodful in a sentence?: Of all the conifers[…], this foodful little pine is the commonest tree, and the most important.
What part of speech is foodful?: Foodful is an adjective.
How do you pronounce foodful?: Foodful is pronounced /ˈfuːdfəl/ (UK).

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