fructification

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
  2. The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

fructification fructifications

Etymology

From fructi- + -fication.

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