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FRUCTIFICATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
Classified under:
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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