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fructuous

fructuous adjective: fruitful.

Adjective

fructuous (comparative more fructuous, superlative most fructuous)

  1. (rare) fruitful
    • ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
    • As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves

fructuous meaning in Tamil

fructuous in Tamil

கனிதரும், செழிப்பான, வளமான, பயன் தரும், ஆக்கபூர்வமான

Forms of fructuous

comparativemore fructuous
superlativemost fructuous

Origin of fructuous

From Latin fructuōsus.

Words formed from fructuous

Questions about fructuous

What does fructuous mean?
Fructuous means fruitful.
What is fructuous in Tamil?
Fructuous in Tamil is கனிதரும், செழிப்பான, வளமான. See Fructuous meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fructuous?
Fructuous is an adjective.

Words near fructuous in the dictionary

  1. fructuates
  2. fructuating
  3. fructuation
  4. fructuations
  5. fructuosity
  6. fructuous
  7. fructuously
  8. fructuousness
  9. fructure
  10. fructuronate
  11. fructuronates

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