fructification
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.06 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period."
- "Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period."
- "Studying the duration of the flowering-fructification period among interspecific first-generation back-cross progenies of African species showed that this trait is positively correlated (r=0.78) with 100-seed weight and caffeine content."
- "The fructification is liable to become very convex in age."
- "The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit."
- "Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of fructifications. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar fructifications in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here."