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-ferous
unknown · 78% connection
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as, auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Acetic
adjective · 78% connection
Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Addle
adjective · 78% connection
Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Afford
verb · 78% connection
To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the ear…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Amphicarpous
adjective · 78% connection
Producing fruit of two kinds, either as to form or time of ripening.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Anchovy pear
unknown · 78% connection
A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Apricot
noun · 78% connection
A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Barren
adjective · 78% connection
Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Bergamot
noun · 78% connection
A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of deli…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Blower
noun · 78% connection
A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Bruise
noun · 78% connection
An injury to the flesh of animals, or to plants, fruit, etc., with a blunt or heavy instrument, or by collision with some other body;…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Carpogenic
adjective · 78% connection
Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Carpophyll
noun · 78% connection
A leaf converted into a fruit or a constituent portion of a fruit; a carpel. [See Illust. of Gymnospermous.]
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Caryopsis
noun · 78% connection
A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Cherry
noun · 78% connection
any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Chokecherry
noun · 78% connection
The astringent fruit of a species of wild cherry (Prunus Virginiana); also, the bush or tree which bears such fruit.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Effete
adjective · 78% connection
No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
Electro-motive
adjective · 78% connection
Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: producing, fruit, unfruitful.
