fructive

fructuous; fruitful

Adjective

  1. 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, […];...

Origin

From Middle English fructife, fructyff, from Latin frūctus + -yf (modern -ive).

Forms

more fructive most fructive