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FRUCTIFICATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fructification" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The bearing of fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("fructification" is a kind of...):

development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)

Derivation:

fructify (bear fruit)

fructify (become productive or fruitful)

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