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Apt to conceive; fruitful. [Obs.] Shak.

The fruit or strobile of the Coniferæ, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.

A preparation of fruits or roots, etc., with sugar; a sweetmeat. Certain confections . . . are like to candied conserves, and are made of sugar and lemons. Bacon.

as an effect discloses its cause; to prove; to attest. Tall thriving trees confessed the fruitful mold. Pope.

A genus of biennial, poisonous, white-flowered, umbelliferous plants, bearing ribbed fruit ("seeds") and decompound leaves.

To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful. Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson. Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song. Milton.

The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).

of a thing, as of a column, wall, rope, of a boil, etc.; especially, the central part of fruit, containing the kernels or seeds; as, the core of an apple or quince. A fever at the core, Fatal to him who bears, to all who ever bore. Byron.

That which cores; an instrument for coring fruit; as, an apple corer.

An umbelliferous plant, the Coriandrum sativum, the fruit or seeds of which have a strong smell and a spicy taste, and in medicine are considered as stomachic and carminative.

A small fruit; a currant. [Obs.] Broome.

The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

lattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

One who hawks about fruit, green vegetables, fish, etc.

An apple seller; a hawker of, or dealer in, any kind of fruit or vegetables; a fruiterer. [Written also costardmonger.]

disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.

The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla- like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.…

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.