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Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by lo…

having several divisions containing seeds; as, the lemon and the orange are plurilocular fruits. Plurilocular sporangia (Bot.), many-celled sporangia, each cell containing a single spore, as in many algæ.

A capsule of plant, especially a legume; a dry dehiscent fruit. See Illust. of Angiospermous.

A stem, or footstalk, supporting the fruit.

on ivy (Rhus Toxicodendron) have clusters of smooth greenish white berries, while the red-fruited species of this genus are harmless. The tree (Rhus vernicifera) which yields the celebrated Japan lacquer is almost identical with the poison sumac, and is also very poisonous. The juice of the poison sumac also forms a la…

Composed of several or numerous carpels; -- said of such fruits as the orange.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, as most perennial plants; polycarpic.

The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

The fruit of the tree Punica Granatum; also, the tree itself (see Balaustine), which is native in the Orient, but is successfully cultivated in many warm countries, and as a house plant in colder climates. The fruit is as large as an orange, and has a hard rind containing many rather large seeds, each one separately co…

A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.

The culture of fruit; pomology as an art.

Bearing pomes, or applelike fruits.

One versed in pomology; one who culticvates fruit trees.

The science of fruits; a treatise on fruits; the cultivation of fruits and fruit trees.

The goddess of fruits and fruit trees.

A vessel or small basket for holding fruit. He had a . . . pottle of strawberries in one hand. Dickens. Pottle draught, taking a pottle of liquor at one draught. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.