fructification
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
fructification (countable and uncountable, 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.
- 1824, Robert Kaye Greville, Flora Edinensis: Or, A Description of Plants Growing Near Edinburgh, page 332:
- The fructification is liable to become very convex in age.
- 1836, William Paul Crillon Barton, Elements of Botany, page 89:
- The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit.
- 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.
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French
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Noun
fructification f (plural fructifications)
- fructification
Further reading
- “fructification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.