Defn: Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.
FRUCTIFICATION Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion, n. Etym: [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.
FRUCTIFY Fruc"ti*fy, v. i. Etym: [F. fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + ficare (only in comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.]
Defn: To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.
FRUCTIFY
Fruc"ti*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fructifying.]
Defn: To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.
FRUCTOSE
Fruc*tose", n. Etym: [L. fructus fruit.] (Chem.)
Defn: Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]