Adjective : a fructuous region, rich in natural resources.    From Dictionary.com. 

And there is a full fair vale and a fructuous; and there is a fair city and a good that men clepe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

KOPPEL: Iraq is a volatile country, a mix of fructuous religious and ethnic groups, many with grievances.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2003] Reference

The awful surrender of the fructuous mind that lives on paper, lives for paper, paper and ink and nothing else!.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Dictation'] Reference

Another branch of this umbrageous if not fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moon Lore] Reference

Well may that land be called delectable and a fructuous land, that was be-bled and moisted with the precious blood of our.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

And though that men bring of the plants, for to plant in other countries, they grow well and fair; but they bring forth no fructuous thing, and the leaves of balm fall not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd2 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

Wel may that lond be called delytable and a fructuous lond, that was bebledd448 and moysted with the precyouse blode of oure Lord Jesu Crist; the whiche is the same lond, that oure lord behighten us in heritage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Toward the est partye of Prestre Johnes lond, is an yle gode an gret, that men clepen Taprobane, that is fulle noble and fulle fructuous: and the kyng thereof is fulle ryche, and is undre the obeyssance of Prestre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Thirdly, his passion was profitable and fructuous: the which may be profitable in three manners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference

And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I] Reference

The passion of our Lord was bitter for the sorrow that he suffered in derisions despitous and of many filths fructuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Legend, vol. 1] Reference

And thoughe that men bryngen of the plauntes, for to planten in other contrees, thei growen wel and fayre, but thei bryngen forthe no fructuous thing: and the leves of bawme ne fallen noughte.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I] Reference

Those few, passing, precious words had fallen like fructuous seed and struck deep root in Gaston's spirit; and, as the germs shot upward, every branch was covered with blossoms of hope which perfumed his nights and days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

TOWARD the east part of Prester John’s land is an isle good and great, that men clepe Taprobane, that is full noble and full fructuous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Travels of Sir John Mandeville] Reference

Beth fructuous, and that in litel space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Canterbury Tales] Reference

And it concretizes a fructuous collaboration with Microsoft France teams which have supported us with their architectural expertise and enthusiasm to answer real world enterprise interoperability issues. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hottest News Articles] Reference

Mirror of fructuous entendement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687)] Reference

Contrast the fructuous and sterile eras.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry] Reference

Han anie fructuous entendement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rowley Poems] Reference

Mirour of fructuous entendement.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

A name to! human, vital, fructuous rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Leigh] Reference