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/prədˈəktɪv/ /proʊdˈəktɪv/ /pərdˈəktɪv/ Listen

adjective

Productive adj.

Having the quality or power of producing; yielding or furnishing results; as, productive soil; productive enterprises; productive labor, that which increases the number or amount of products.

Bringing into being; causing to exist; producing; originative; as, an age productive of great men; a spirit productive of heroic achievements. "And kindle with thy own productive fire." "This is turning nobility into a principle of virtue, and making it productive of merit."

Producing, or able to produce, in large measure; fertile; profitable.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... abolitionists ought to concentrate all their efforts to organize thoroughly and efficiently the district of Beaufort. The success of a productive colony there would serve as a womb for ...

— Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 • Adam Gurowski

... MmFf and mmff, as well as the normal males and females, Mmff and Ffmm. As the facts of ordinary bisexual reproduction afford us no grounds for assuming the existence of these two classes of individuals, whatever they may be, we must suppose that fertilisation. is productive only between the spermatozoa carrying M and the ova without F, or between the spermatozoa {117} without M and the ova containing F. In other words we must on this view suppose that fertilisations between certain forms ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

... subtler cause might lurk at the bottom, it is certain that the water of Maule's Well, as it continued to be called, grew hard and brackish. Even such we find it now; and any old woman of the neighborhood will certify that it is productive of intestinal mischief to those who quench their ...

— The House of the Seven Gables • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... was thus productive of gratification, the very first walk I took in the streets was productive of still greater. On leaving the inn, and turning to the left, up a narrow street, I came in view of a house ... upon the walls of which were painted, full three hundred ...

— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin

... our last night of camping out, and I felt almost sorry for it, for I have enjoyed the journey in spite of the hardships. The country through which I have passed would be most fertile and productive (at least the last 150 miles), were it not for the great irregularity of the seasons. Sometimes there is hardly any rain for two and ...

— Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 • Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle

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