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fructuous

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

fruitful

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

Examples

  • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation ... and there is a fulle fair vale and a fructuouse, and there is a fair cytee and a gode, that men clepen Neople.

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History

Etymology

From Latin fructuōsus.