usurious

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As usufructs of Depression he counted cellophane, colored metals, non-rusting metals, cancer investigations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even such quirks as Wolfe's penchant for recondite words like "gibbosity" and "usufructs" and for scrupulous vocabularies of all kinds are minutely documented.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great corporations snatch at such new knowledge and profit from the usufructs.

From Time Magazine Archive

The territory, in a word, was common, but not only products but usufructs were property attaching to individuals, who could transfer them by gift.

From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember

Flaubert, in those days, was his idol, as we know, but the speech of his daily business won, and English literature reaped the greatest of all its usufructs from English sea power.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)