Definition of "fructiferous" [fructiferous]

• Bearing fruit. (adjective)

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• "Adiantum and fructiferous mosses, and a curious Primuloid plant out of flower, with a curious Clematis."
• "Paul's genius was absorbent, fructiferous, prolific of golden dreams."
• ""The years of the fructiferous incarnation of the Son of God had reached the number of one thousand three hundred and forty-eight, when into the illustrious city of Florence, beautiful beyond every other in Italy, entered the death - fraught pestilence.""