frugiferous

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Preussen are luxuriantly grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough; and the soil generally is reckoned fertile, though lying so far northward.

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  1. Producing fruit or grain; fruitful; fructiferous. [Rare.] And God said, behold I give you every frugiferous herb which is upon the face of the earth. Dr. H. More, Conjectura Cabbalistica, i. 29.

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  • Upon which we are now called to cast a glance It is a moory flat country, full of lakes and woods, like Brandenburg; spreading out into grassy expanses, and bosky wildernesses humming with bees; plenty of bog in it, but plenty also of alluvial mud; sand too, but by no means so high a ratio of it as in Brandenburg; tracts of Preussen are luxuriantly grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough; and the soil generally is reckoned fertile, though lying so far northward. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • It is almost the only frugiferous nocturnal bird yet known; the conformation of its feet sufficiently shows that it does not hunt like our owls. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
  • Preussen are luxuriantly grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough; and the soil generally is reckoned fertile, though lying so far northward. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02
  • Triglaph, or Triglyph Idol, (derivation of Triglaph wholly unknown to me -- I use Triglyph only for my own handiest epithet), last set up, on what is now St. Mary's hill in Brandenburg, in 1023, belonged indeed to a people wonderfully like the Saxons, -- geographically their close neighbours, -- in habits of life, and aspect of native land, scarcely distinguishable from them, -- in Carlyle's words, a "strong-boned, iracund, herdsman and fisher people, highly averse to be interfered with, in their religion especially, and inhabiting a moory flat country, full of lakes and woods, but with plenty also of alluvial mud, grassy, frugiferous, apt for the plough" -- in all things like the Saxons, except, as I read the matter, in that 'aversion to be interfered with' which you modern English think an especially Saxon character in you, -- but which is, on the contrary, you will find on examination, by no means Saxon; but only Wendisch, Czech, Serbic, —  The Pleasures of England Lectures given in Oxford
 

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  1. = French frugifère = Portuguese Italian frugifero, from L. frugifer, from frux (frug-), fruits of the earth (see frugal), + ferre = English bear.
 

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