fructuously en · ADV
Etymology
From fructuous + -ly.
Meanings
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(archaic) fruitfully
As our ship came within sight of and skirted the shores of the Persian Gulf, just before entering the Suez Canal at Suez, I impulsively thought of the poppy which is fructuously husbanded here, which are chaliced and flame to red, and the scarlet cups of which are filled with sunshine and bitterness.
1921, Daniel Frederick MacMartin, Thirty Years in Hell: Or, The Confessions of a Drug Fiend, page 96:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more fructuously | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most fructuously | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |