The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fructuous
Fructuous \Fruc"tu*ous\, a. [L. fructuosus: cf, F. fructueux.] Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.]
Nothing fructuous or profitable.
--Chaucer.
-- Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
fructuous
a. (label en rare) fruitful
Usage examples of "fructuous".
They passed through colonnades of dark electrum, where silver branches dipped, picked out with mercurial leaves, along fructuous avenues arched over with trees of solid gold and then through sylvan palaces upheld with pillars of diamond and emerald, coronaled with flickering lights.
This quiet, cloistered but not inactive nor unexciting life in these most ancient and fructuous groves of academe is what I want.