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Webster 1913 Edition
Fructification
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Frucˊti-fi-ca′tion
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Fructification
FRUCTIFICA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.2.
In botany, the temporary part of a plant appropriated to generation, terminating the old vegetable and beginning the new. It consists of seven parts, the calyx, impalement or flower-cup, the corol or petals, the stamens, and the pistil, which belong to the flower, the pericarp and seed, which pertain to the fruit, and the receptacle or base, on which the other parts are seated. The receptacle belongs both to the flower and fruit.Definition 2024
fructification
fructification
English
Noun
fructification (plural fructifications)
- (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
- 2012, V. Rybacek, Hop Production, page 104:
- 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.
- 2013, Martin Aluja, Fruit Flies: Biology and Management, page 384:
- Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period.
- 2014, Victor R. Preedy, Coffee in Health and Disease Prevention, page 43:
- Studying the duration of the flowering-fructification period among interspecific first-generation back-cross progenies of African species showed that this trait is positively correlated (r=0.78) with 100-seed weight and caffeine content.
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- (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
- 2012, Sergei Meyen, Fundamentals of Palaeobotany, page 380:
- Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of fructifications. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar fructifications in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here.