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Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

Productive of, or affected by, ague; as, the aguish districts of England. T. Arnold. A"gu*ish*ness, n.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty. Brilliant but barren reveries. Prescott. Some schemes will appear barren of hints and matter. Swift.

Unfruitfully; unproductively.

The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness. A total barrenness of invention. Dryden.

genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

Fertile; fruitful; productive. [Obs.] A battel soil for grain, for pasture good. Fairfax.

Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.

umerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful. [R.] Shak.

of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." Howitt.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.