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Fructification

noun

The bearing of fruit.

Organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses).

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"Fructification" Quotes from Famous Books

... as it is called, is strictly a resin, not being at all soluble in water; in appearance it strongly resembles gamboge, but has not the property of staining. The plant that produces it is low and small, with long grassy leaves; but the fructification of it shoots out in a singular manner from the centre of the leaves, on a single straight stem, to the height of twelve or fourteen feet. Of this stem, which is strong and light, like some of the reed class, the natives usually make their spears; sometimes pointing them with a ...

— The Voyage Of Governor Phillip To Botany Bay • Arthur Phillip

... evidently well understood by the artist. Not only is smell peculiarly associated with love, in all the higher animals, but it is associated with reproduction in plants, the majority of which evolve delicious odors only when the flowers or organs of fructification are displayed. Connected, indeed, with the capacity of the nose, and the cavities which open into it, is the projection of the whole middle part ...

— Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World • Anonymous

Words linked to "Fructification" : growth, ontogeny, growing, ontogenesis, fructify, development, reproductive structure, maturation