fructification
[fruhk-tuh-fi-key-shuh n, froo k-, frook-]
noun
act of fructifying; the fruiting of a plant, fungus, etc.
the fruit itself.
the organs of fruiting; fruiting body.
Origin of fructification
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manufacture, management, construction, manufacturing, bearing, generation, creation, rendering, assembly, giving, presentation, direction, return, protraction, origination, provision, fabrication, prolongation, elongation, yieldingExamples from the Web for fructification
Historical Examples of fructification
Fourthly, the position of the head which the nature of fructification requires.
Modern Painters Volume II (of V)John Ruskin
The object of this rite is the fructification of all seeds known to the Hopi.
Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895Jesse Walter Fewkes
It is very true that saps ascend for fructification; but what is this fructification, to which you allude?
The MonikinsJ. Fenimore Cooper
This, in a few words, is the main general character of the fructification.
Ancient PlantsMarie C. Stopes
Most of the mosses produce their fructification in the winter and spring.
An Elementary Text-book of the MicroscopeJohn William Griffith
fructification
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