Fructiculose

Producing much fruit. Fruc'tid or, n. [Fr., from Lat. fructus, fruit, and Gr. doron, a gift.] ( Hist.) The name given in the republican calendar of France to the period extending from the 18th of Aug. to the 16th of Sept. The 18th Fructidor of the year 5 (or on the 4th of Sept., 1797) is celebrated as the day on which Barras, Rewbell, and Lepaux, members of the Directory, by a coup d'état, saved the republic from the machinations of the Royalists, who had got the upper hand in the Council of Five Hundred. The execution of the coup d'état was intrusted to General Augereau. Fructiferous, a. [Lat. fructus, fruit, and ferre, to bear.] Producing fruit.