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infrugiferous

infrugiferous adjective: not bearing fruit; fruitless.

Adjective

infrugiferous (comparative more infrugiferous, superlative most infrugiferous)

  1. Not bearing fruit; fruitless.
    • There are two ſorts of Pomegranate-Trees, the one wild, which is florigerous, but withall infrugiferous, the other domeſticall, whereof there are three differences, one beares acid Pomegranates, another ſweet ones; and the third dulco-acid ones, […]1657, “Three Books of Medicinal Materials […]”, in Joannes Renodæus [Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing The vvhole Body of Physick: Discovering The...
    • We are consequently desirous of administering—in no ratiocinative spirit—a jobation to those psittaceous individuals whose ebullient verbosity manifests itself in an infrugiferous efflorescen[c]e of language, and a polysyllabilification^([sic]) of monosyllables.1901 September 5, “Exchanges”, in Leader-Independent, volume 8, number 2, Greeley, Neb., page 1

Synonyms of infrugiferous

Antonyms

Forms of infrugiferous

comparativemore infrugiferous
superlativemost infrugiferous

Origin of infrugiferous

From in- + frugiferous.

Questions about infrugiferous

What does infrugiferous mean?
Infrugiferous means not bearing fruit; fruitless.
What part of speech is infrugiferous?
Infrugiferous is an adjective.

Words near infrugiferous in the dictionary

  1. infructiferous
  2. infructuose
  3. infructuous
  4. infructuously
  5. infrugal
  6. infrugiferous
  7. infrustrable
  8. infrutescence
  9. infrutescense
  10. infuckingcredible
  11. infuckingpossible

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