Found 2 items, similar to Fructification.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: fructification
fructification
n 1: the bearing of fruit
2: organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of
ferns and mosses)
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Fructification
Fructification
\Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf.
F. fructification.]
1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of
fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit;
fecundation.
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The prevalent fructification of plants. --Sir T.
Brown.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its
fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
(b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
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