fruitful

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  1. adjective Producing fruit.
  2. adjective Conducive to productivity; causing to bear in abundance: fruitful soil.
  3. adjective Producing something in abundance; prolific: a fruitful author of fiction.
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  • She thanked the couple for having accorded her what she described as a fruitful interview and took leave of them. —  ADDERS ON THE HEATH
  • Slide 10: And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Slide 13: fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Aaron Lennon, more likely to put a cross into a fruitful area than he was before the advent of Redknapp, has begun to contribute, but the appropriate players are yet to be installed in the centre. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • For the deliberation to be fruitful, the starting point should be everybody recognizing that the Nano plant should not be allowed, under any cost, to move away from the state. —  Top Stories - Google News
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  1. from Middle English fruitefull; from fruit + -ful,
 

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