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FRUITFUL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Productive or conducive to producing in abundance
Example:
be fruitful and multiply
Classified under:
Similar:
baccate; bacciferous; berried (producing or bearing berries)
blue-fruited (bearing blue fruit)
bountiful; plentiful (producing in abundance)
breeding (producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring)
dark-fruited (bearing dark fruit)
fat; fertile; productive; rich (marked by great fruitfulness)
generative; procreative; reproductive (producing new life or offspring)
high-yield (yielding a large amount of agricultural or industrial production)
oval-fruited (bearing oval fruit)
fertile; prolific (bearing in abundance especially offspring)
red-fruited (bearing red fruit)
round-fruited (bearing round fruit)
small-fruited (bearing small fruit)
Also:
fertile (capable of reproducing)
productive (producing or capable of producing (especially abundantly))
Antonym:
unfruitful (not fruitful; not conducive to abundant production)
Derivation:
fruitfulness (the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth)