Meanings
adjectivefructive (comparative more fructive, superlative most fructive)
comparative more fructive · superlative most fructive
- formalfructuous; 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
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Origin
- Latinfrūctus
- Middle Englishfructife
- Englishfructive
From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).
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