Producing or bearing fruit; capable of producing fruit or profitable results.
From Latin fructus (fruit) combined with -parous, from parere (to produce or bear). This Latin construction literally means 'fruit-bearing' and was used in botanical and academic Latin.
Fructiparous is the botanical adjective that transforms a noun into a property—it's how scientists formally describe fruit-bearing plants. You'll find it in 17th-century botanical texts describing which trees are fructiparous versus merely ornamental, a distinction that mattered for survival.
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