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Noun: fructification  ,frúk-tu-fu'key-shun
  1. The bearing of fruit
    "The fructification of the apple trees in the orchard was abundant this year"
     
  2. Organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
    "The fructification of ferns includes structures called sporangia"

Derived forms: fructifications

Type of: development, growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny, reproductive structure

Encyclopedia: Fructification