Fructification

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. countable, uncountable

    "In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period."

  2. 2
    organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) wordnet
  3. 3
    The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. countable, uncountable

    "The fructification is liable to become very convex in age."

  4. 4
    the bearing of fruit wordnet

Synonyms

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bearingfruitionmultiplicationproductionproliferationreproduction

Example

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"In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period."

Etymology

From fructi- + -fication.

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