Word.ws English Dictionary

fructiferous

fructiferous adjective: synonym of fruit-bearing.

Adjective

fructiferous (comparative more fructiferous, superlative most fructiferous)

  1. Synonym of fruit-bearing.
    Synonyms:
    fruit-bearing
    Antonyms:
    infructiferous

Synonyms of fructiferous

Antonyms

Forms of fructiferous

comparativemore fructiferous
superlativemost fructiferous

Origin of fructiferous

From Latin frūctus + -i- + -ferous.

Words that rhyme with fructiferous

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fructiferous

What does fructiferous mean?
Fructiferous means synonym of fruit-bearing.
What part of speech is fructiferous?
Fructiferous is an adjective.

Words near fructiferous in the dictionary

  1. fructiculturists
  2. Fructidor
  3. Fructidorian
  4. Fructidorians
  5. Fructidors
  6. fructiferous
  7. fructification
  8. fructifications
  9. fructificative
  10. fructified
  11. fructifier

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fructiferous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fructiferous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fructiferous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.