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fructive

fructive adjective: fructuous; fruitful.

Adjective

fructive (comparative more fructive, superlative most fructive)

  1. (formal) fructuous; fruitful
    • Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: […]1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164

Forms of fructive

comparativemore fructive
superlativemost fructive

Origin of fructive

From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).

Questions about fructive

What does fructive mean?
Fructive means fructuous; fruitful.
What part of speech is fructive?
Fructive is an adjective.

Words near fructive in the dictionary

  1. fructifiers
  2. fructifies
  3. fructiform
  4. fructify
  5. fructifying
  6. fructive
  7. fructivore
  8. fructivores
  9. fructivorous
  10. fructo-
  11. fructo-oligosaccharide

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