1. A reference to large amounts of goods or other commodities; profitable: The students had a very fructuous discussion about the effects of smoking and even continued their conversation on this topic after the teacher left at the end of the lesson!
  2. Relating to crops that have produced much fruit: The winegrowers were convinced that they had had a fructuous year after having harvested such a large quantity of grapes at the end of the season. © ALL rights are reserved.

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