Fruitless: alternatives and connections

A West Indian fruit like the mango in taste, sometimes pickled; also, the tree (Grias cauliflora) bearing this fruit.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub.

The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; t…

Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to…

Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

A shrub; esp., a shrub with branches rising from or near the root; a thick shrub or a cluster of shrubs.

A shrub (the Myrica cerifera, or wax-bearing myrtle), common in North America, the little nuts of which are covered with a greenish wh…

A tree or shrub of the genus Prunus (Which also includes the plum) bearing a fleshy drupe with a bony stone;

A branching, nut-bearing tree or shrub (Castanea pumila) of North America, from six to twenty feet high, allied to the chestnut. Also,…

The small apple-shaped or pear-shaped fruit of an American shrub (Pyrus arbutifolia) growing in damp thickets; also, the shrub.

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…

(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…

A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are desti…

Destitute of that which interests or amuses; barren; unembellished; jejune; plain.

Full of fruit; producing fruit abundantly; bearing results; prolific; fertile; liberal; bountiful; as, a fruitful tree, or season, or…

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become o…