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Fructification

noun
1.
The bearing of fruit.
2.
Organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses).





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"Fructification" Quotes from Famous Books



... grow closly ascociated in cops either in the oppen or timbered lands near the watercouses. the leaf is petiolate of a pale green and resembles in it's form that of the red currant common to our gardens. the perianth of the fructification is one leaved, five cleft, abreviated and tubular, the corolla is monopetallous funnel-shaped; very long, superior, withering and of a fine orrange colour. five stamens and one pistillum; of the first, the fillaments are capillare, inserted into the corolla, equal, and converging; ...
— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al
... propagated by seeds, layers, and pipings; new varieties can only be raised from seed, which, however, is sparingly produced from good flowers, because the petals are so multiplied, as nearly to exclude the parts of the fructification essential to their production. ...
— The Botanical Magazine v 2 - or Flower-Garden Displayed • William Curtis


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


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