NOUN
- the bearing of fruit
- organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
How To Use fructification In A Sentence
- Here's a quote from Barbara Walker's "The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets:" "After castrating Set, Horus spread his blood on the fields to render them fertile - the usual fructification-by-male-blood found in the oldst sacrificial Mysteries. Archive 2008-03-01
- Depending on the species, these fructifications can be in the form of sporangia, aethalia or plasmodiocarps.
- The principal production of this palm is the toddy, which is procured in the same manner as from other palms, or in the following mode: one of the spatae or shoot of fructification is, on the first appearance of fruit, beaten for three successive days with a small stick, with a view of determining the sap to the wounded part. North Coast Culture
- Fructification: zoospores produced from the cell contents of the filaments; resting spores formed from the contents of particular cells after impregnation by ciliated spermatozoids produced in distinct antheridial cells. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- * The leaf, examined with a microscope at the instant we drew it up from the water, did not present, it is true, those conglobate glands, or those opaque points, which the parts of fructification in the genera of ulva and fucus contain; but how often do we find seaweeds in such a state that we cannot yet distinguish any trace of seeds in their transparent parenchyma. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
- Fructification: the internal mass or contents separating into roundish or lenticular gonidia. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- Fructification: ovate spores and tufts of antheridial cells attached to the lateral ramuli, which consist of minute, radiating, dichotomous beaded filaments. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
- A lot of fruit grower and the governor that have experience very notice fructification defend water.
- To the right the fructifications have been traced by dissection to the rhizomorph strands which produced them.] Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888
- Culminating on Saturday, the exhibition has all that goes into fructification of the dream of a middle-class family.