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fructification
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fructification \Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.]
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The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
The prevalent fructification of plants.
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(Bot.)
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
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, or spores.
WordNet
n. the bearing of fruit
organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
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, though they produce neither fruit nor flower.
Since the works of Andrea Caesalpino (1519–1603) the characters of fructification have been extensively used as a basis for the scientific classification of plants. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) raised the description of the parts of fructification to an unprecedented level of precision. He insisted that genera and the higher groups of plants must be characterised in terms of the fructification alone without using vegetative parts (which can be used only to characterise the species within genera). At that time it was believed that all plants have flowers and fruits. It was not until the nineteenth century that the important difference between seeds and spores was recognised and the use of terms flower and fruit was restricted to the flowering plants ( angiosperms).
Later plant taxonomists used a more balanced approach and re-introduced the use of the vegetative parts of the plant as a basis for characters at different levels of taxonomic hierarchy.
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.