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fruitious

fruitious adjective: fruitful.

Adjective

fruitious (comparative more fruitious, superlative most fruitious)

  1. fruitful
    • […] so likewise do all Earths abound in some degree with a fruitious Salt, as may be proved from the great Quantities of Salt-petre that have been extracted from covered Grounds by the help of Water […]1735, William Ellis, The Practice of Farming and Husbandry in All Sorts of Soils

Forms of fruitious

comparativemore fruitious
superlativemost fruitious

Origin of fruitious

(See fruition) From fruit + -ious.

Questions about fruitious

What does fruitious mean?
Fruitious means fruitful.
What part of speech is fruitious?
Fruitious is an adjective.

Words near fruitious in the dictionary

  1. fruitings
  2. fruitini
  3. fruitinis
  4. fruition
  5. fruitions
  6. fruitious
  7. fruitique
  8. fruitiques
  9. fruitive
  10. fruitivore
  11. fruitivores

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