fructify
/ˈfɹʌktɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Atop the [Palmito] tree is a pith, in taſte better then Cabbage; and eating it takes avvay the future benefit of grovvth or fructifying, theſe and the Date-tree thriue not, except the male and female be vnited, and haue copulation: the ſhe is only fruitfull."
- "Then one evening early in November Beedel rang Mr Carrados up. The blind man happened to take the call himself, and at the first words he knew that the dull, patient shadowing of weeks was about to fructify."
- "It is good to detect hints of a more aggressive attitude from the B.T.C. in face of constant reminders of accumulated deficits and niggling for economies before modernisation schemes have had a chance fully to fructify […]."
- "When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another."
- "He slew the Bull (symbol of the gross Earth which the sunlight fructifies)."
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *bʰrewHg-, -, fructefier