Definition of "fructuous" []

• Fruitful; productive. (adjective)

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• "The awful surrender of the fructuous mind that lives on paper, lives for paper, paper and ink and nothing else!"
• "Toward the est partye of Prestre Johnes lond, is an yle gode an gret, that men clepen Taprobane, that is fulle noble and fulle fructuous: and the kyng thereof is fulle ryche, and is undre the obeyssance of Prestre"
• "Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd2 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage."