Word Meanings - ACARPOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

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• FRUIT
  The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever
• FRUITAGE
  1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• FRUITIVE
  Eujoying; possessing. Boyle.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• FRUITION
  Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use. "Capacity of fruition." Rogers. "Godlike fruition." Milton. Where I may have fruition of her love. Shak.
• FRUITLESS
  1. Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage. Shak. 2. Productive of no advantage or good effect; vain; idle; useless; unprofitable; as, a fruitless attempt; a fruitless
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• FRUITERESS
  A woman who sells fruit.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• FRUITY
  Having the odor, taste, or appearance of fruit; also, fruitful. Dickens.
• FRUITER
  A ship for carrying fruit.
• FRUITERY
  1. Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips. 2. A repository for fruit. Johnson.
• PRODUCTRESS
  A female producer.
• PRODUCER'S SURPLUS; PRODUCER'S RENT
  Any profit above the normal rate of interest and wages accruing to a producer on account of some monopoly of the means or materials of production; -- called also Producer's rent.
• PRODUCT
  The number or sum obtained by adding one number or quantity to itself as many times as there are units in another number; the number resulting from the multiplication of two or more numbers; as, the product of the multiplication of 7 by 5 is 35.
• BREADFRUIT
  The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• GRAPE FRUIT
  The shaddock.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• OVERFRUITFUL
  Too fruitful.
• REPRODUCER
  One who, or that which, reproduces. Burke.
• REPRODUCE
  To produce again. Especially: To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. To cause to exist again. Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again
• KEY FRUIT
  A samara.