fructification

American  

[fruhk-tuh-fi-key-shuhn, frook-, frook-] / ˌfrʌk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌfrʊk-, ˌfruk- /

noun

1. act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.

2. the fruit itself.

3. the organs of fruiting; fruiting body.

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fructification Scientific  

/ frŭk′tə-fĭ-kā′shən /

1. The producing of fruit by an angiosperm.

2. A seed-bearing or spore-bearing structure.

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Etymology

Origin of fructification

1605–15; < Late Latin frūctificātion- (stem of frūctificātiō ) a bearing of fruit, equivalent to Latin frūctificāt ( us ) (past participle of frūctificāre; fructify ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

The first chapter gives an account of the principal writers on botany; the second, of systems of classification; the third, of the roots, stems, and leaves of plants; the fourth, of the parts of fructification.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

Asperococcus derives its name from its roughened surface, occasioned by the thickly scattered spots of fructification.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

The chill which poverty breathes over the mind is as unfriendly to the unfolding of the intellectual germs, as the icy atmosphere of winter is to the fructification of vegetable seed.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

With these and reasonable perseverance the structure of the flowers and fructification of most phanerogamous plants and Ferns can be made out.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

Upper end of a Rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus, reduced half or more, b, the fructification.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

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