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fructuously

fructuously adverb: fruitfully.

Adverb

fructuously (comparative more fructuously, superlative most fructuously)

  1. (archaic) fruitfully
    • As our ship came within sight of and skirted the shores of the Persian Gulf, just before entering the Suez Canal at Suez, I impulsively thought of the poppy which is fructuously husbanded here, which are chaliced and flame to red, and the scarlet cups of which are filled with sunshine and...1921, Daniel Frederick MacMartin, Thirty Years in Hell: Or, The Confessions of a Drug Fiend, page 96

Forms of fructuously

comparativemore fructuously
superlativemost fructuously

Origin of fructuously

From fructuous + -ly.

Questions about fructuously

What does fructuously mean?
Fructuously means fruitfully.
What part of speech is fructuously?
Fructuously is an adverb.

Words near fructuously in the dictionary

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

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