fructive en · ADJ
Etymology
From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).
Meanings
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(formal) fructuous; fruitful
Not high Olympus—nor your fructive earth, / E’er to such fairy-forms gave birth: […]
1843, J[ohann] Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jonathan Birch, Faust: A Tragedy, […], 2nd part, London: Chapman and Hall, […]; Leipsic: F[riedrich] A[rnold] Brockhaus, act II, scene vii, page 164:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more fructive | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most fructive | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |