Fructification
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fructification is a noun meaning (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Meaning
(botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
More Meanings
- (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Example Sentences
The fructification is liable to become very convex in age.
The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit.
Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period.
In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period.
Word Forms
- fructifications
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include conidial, fruiting, fruitification, fructifier, fructescence, fructuosity.
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