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noun

Fructification n.

The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. "The prevalent fructification of plants."

(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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Etymology of 'Fructification'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fructification" Quotes from Famous Books

... and this affection is afterwards perfected by being filled out, which goes on to eternity. For everything is capable of being filled out to eternity, since everything is capable of infinite variation, thus of enrichment by various things, and consequently of multiplication and fructification. To any thing good there is no limit because it is from the Infinite. That spirits and angels are being perfected unceasingly in intelligence and wisdom by means of knowledges of truth and good may be seen above, in the chapters on the wisdom of the angels of heaven (n. 265-275); ...

— Heaven and its Wonders and Hell • Emanuel Swedenborg

... nerves, and are, consequently full of oval holes; and so fast does its spadix of flowers expand, that (as indeed do some other Aroids) an actual genial heat and fire of passion, which may be tested by the thermometer, or even by the hand, is given off during fructification. Beware of breaking it, or the Seguines. They will probably give off an evil smell, and as probably a blistering milk. Look on at the next stem. Up it, and down again, a climbing fern {133d} which is often seen ...

— At Last • Charles Kingsley

Words linked to "Fructification" : development, ontogeny, reproductive structure, growth