infrugiferous
English
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Etymology
[edit]From in- + frugiferous.
Adjective
[edit]infrugiferous (comparative more infrugiferous, superlative most infrugiferous)
- Not bearing fruit; fruitless.
- Synonyms: fruitless, infructiferous
- Antonyms: fructiferous, frugiferous, fruitful
- 1657, “Three Books of Medicinal Materials […]”, in Joannes Renodæus [Jean de Renou], translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medicinal Dispensatory, Containing The vvhole Body of Physick: Discovering The Natures, Properties, and Vertues of Vegetables, Minerals, & Animals […], London: Printed by Jo: Streater and Ja: Cottrel; and are to be sold by Henry Fletcher […], Book I. Of Plants. Sect VI. Of Fruits. Chap. V. Of Pomegranates, page 373:
- There are two ſorts of Pomegranate-Trees, the one wild, which is florigerous, but withall infrugiferous, the other domeſticall, whereof there are three differences, one beares acid Pomegranates, another ſweet ones; and the third dulco-acid ones, […]
- 1901 September 5, “Exchanges”, in Leader-Independent, volume 8, number 2, Greeley, Neb., page 1:
- We are consequently desirous of administering—in no ratiocinative spirit—a jobation to those psittaceous individuals whose ebullient verbosity manifests itself in an infrugiferous efflorescen[c]e of language, and a polysyllabilification[sic] of monosyllables.
- c. 1964, Giordano Bruno, translated by Arthur D. Imerti, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast, Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, translation of Lo spaccio de la bestia trionfante, published 1992, →ISBN, Second Dialogue: First Part, page 146:
- Jove has placed into the hand of Judgment the Sword and the Crown; with the latter she rewards those who do good works and abstain from evil; with the former she punishes those who are inclined toward crimes, and are useless and infrugiferous plants.
Further reading
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “infrugiferous, a.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
- “infrugiferous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.