"fetiferous" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin fētifer (“causing fruitfulness”) + -ous, from fētus (“pregnant, fruitful”) + -fer (“bearing, carrying, bringing”).",
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      "form": "most fetiferous",
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          "ref": "1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27",
          "text": "[…]all the treasury of those ideal signatures, which […] became existent in the matrix or womb of that generative and faetiferous word, from whence sprung up the wonderful, numerous and various seminal natures[…]",
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        {
          "ref": "1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, London, page 593",
          "text": "Fruit somewhat globose, usually fetiferous, with a sweet pulp.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1922, Clifford Bax, (poem title not given), a. 1922, quoted in Arthur Melville Clark, The Realistic Revolt of Modern Poetry, London, page 66",
          "text": "Fetiferous of gems which sparkle more / Than fairy lights in eye of queen […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1930, J. Fullerton Gressitt, transl., Love—The Law Of Life, translation of 愛の科学 by Toyohiko Kagawa, page 31",
          "text": "The kangaroo is fetiferous, but has no placenta.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy: Understanding A World In Motion, University Press of Colorado, page 452",
          "text": "Nepantla is indeed gestational and fetiferous, but not of some postliminal existence, for there is no postliminal existence available.",
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        "Producing young; fruitful, productive."
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        "(rare) Producing young; fruitful, productive."
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          "ref": "1654, John Webster, Academiarum examen, London, page 27",
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