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fructification
Word definitions for fructification in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fructification are the generative parts of the plant ( flower and fruit ) (as opposed to its vegetative parts: trunk , roots and leaves ). Sometimes it is applied more broadly to the generative parts of gymnosperms , ferns , horsetails , and lycophytes ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the bearing of fruit organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fructification \Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.] 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. (Bot.) ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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. 3 The process of producing fruit, or seeds, ...
Usage examples of fructification.
Fourthly, he can directly prevent the erection of that member which is adapted to fructification, just as he can prevent local motion.
It makes that image evident to perception in the variety, and in the fructification and multiplication, of all things.
And as fructification and multiplication have not failed from the beginning of creation and never will, plainly there is in that ability an endeavor after self-propagation to eternity also.
This capacity of fructification and multiplication without end or to infinity and eternity exists in natural things with men, in spiritual with the spiritual angels, and in celestial with the celestial angels.
If there were an end to wisdom for a wise man, the enjoyment of his wisdom would perish, which consists in the perpetual multiplication and fructification of wisdom.
It needs a soil of bog earth and is incorrectly styled the 'Flowering Fern,' from the handsome spikes of fructification.