Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fructification"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fructification \Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf.
F. fructification.]
1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of
fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit;
fecundation.
The prevalent fructification of plants. --Sir T.
Brown.
2. (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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
fructification
n : the bearing of fruit
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