Fructify

Quick meaning: Fructify is a verb meaning (intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.

Meaning

(intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To make productive or fruitful.

Example Sentences

He slew the Bull (symbol of the gross Earth which the sunlight fructifies).

Then one evening early in November Beedel rang Mr Carrados up. The blind man happened to take the call himself, and at the first words he knew that the dull, patient shadowing of weeks was about to fructify.

When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another.

It is good to detect hints of a more aggressive attitude from the B.T.C. in face of constant reminders of accumulated deficits and niggling for economies before modernisation schemes have had a chance fully to fructify […].

Word Forms

• fructifies
• fructifying
• fructified

Synonyms for fructify

Depending on context, synonyms include set.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include set, frutify, fruitify, fructuate, fruiten, befruit.

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