Pronounced: PULL-yuh-late, verb
Notes: A new word for me
Yesterday’s word
The word fructuous means “fruitful”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid- to late 1300s
Background / Comments
I had the meaning wrong because when I saw our word, I saw a similarity to the word “fractious”; had I thought of the word “fructose”, I would have been on the proper track to the right definition. Our word came from the Latin word fructus (fruit; enjoyment; use). The word fructose does comes from this root, as does usufruct (the right to use or enjoy something).
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