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noun
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: reproductive structure
noun
the bearing of fruit
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
History
Etymology tree Latin frūctusder. English fructi- English -fication English fructification From fructi- + -fication.
