Tidy Lookup
All sites11
Curious Word of the Daycuriouswordoftheday.com

fetiferous

adjective

  1. Producing young; fruitful, productive.

    rare

    […]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]

Where it comes from

From Latin fētifer (“causing fruitfulness”) + -ous, from fētus (“pregnant, fruitful”) + -fer (“bearing, carrying, bringing”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fetiferous (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← fescenninefettle →

Another random word More words starting with F