Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fructuous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fruc-tu-ous
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Example Sentences

"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."
"As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted."

Etymology

From Latin fructuōsus.

Inflected Forms

more fructuous (comparative) most fructuous (superlative)

Derived Forms

fructuously fructuousness infructuous unfructuous

Questions

What does fructuous mean?: fruitful
Where does fructuous come from?: From Latin fructuōsus.

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