fructification (redirected from fructifications)

fruc·ti·fi·ca·tion  (frkt-f-kshn, frk-)

n.

1. The producing of fruit.

2. A seed-bearing or spore-bearing structure.

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fructification  (frkt-f-kshn)

1. The producing of fruit by an angiosperm.

2. A seed-bearing or spore-bearing structure.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	fructification - the bearing of fruit growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturation, development - (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; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"
	2.	fructification - organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction