Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Yielding largely or copiously; fruitful; productive; prolific.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic fruitful; copious; abundant; plentiful

Etymologies

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From Latin uber ("full, fruitful, fertile, abundant, plentiful, copious, productive")

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Examples

  • Spills have tainted the waters, constant burning of oil wells have affected the air, and the soil that once gave birth to rich foods in abundance is now barely uberous.

    Food Not Bombs Heads to Nigeria 2006

  • That “sensitive, lucid, uberous organ,” with its “ridges and creases running over his sic surface,”83 isolated from its body, incapable of expression and communication, with its single eye floating in a basin of Ringer’s solution, was shockingly, almost mockingly prophetic of his wife’s current situation.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

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