fetiferous

comparative more fetiferous · superlative most fetiferous

1. rareProducing young; fruitful, productive.

   The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.

   1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31

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   […]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]

   1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27

   Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp.

   1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, London, page 593

   Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]

   1922, Clifford Bax, (poem title not given), a. 1922, quoted in Arthur Melville Clark, The Realistic Revolt of Modern Poetry, London, page 66

   Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available.

   2014, James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World In Motion, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 452