a. [f. L. frūgifer (f. frūgi-, frux fruit + -fer bearing) + -OUS.] Fruit-bearing, fruitful. Hence Frugiferousness (Bailey, 1727–36).
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter iii. 18. All trees are not frugiferous, Christians are.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 4. And God said, Behold, I give you every frugiferous Herb, which is upon the face of the Earth.
fig. 1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xxvi. 318. We never accounted the Experiment either so luciferous, or frugiferous, to make it our business to attend trials, and exact observations about it.
