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fruitification en · NOUN

Etymology

From fruit + -ification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Alternative form of fructification. ▸ The act of forming or producing fruit.
   • Pollen is the essential feature or element in all fruitification of blossoms, essential to fruitbearing. 1917, The Bee Keepers' Review - Volumes 30-31, page 10:
2. (countable, uncountable) Alternative form of fructification. ▸ The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
   • The fruitification consists of numerous minute grains or seeds, some of which are single, but the greater part crowded, and disposed in separate fasciae, forming parallel segments of circles, of which the base of the plant is the centre, and leaving naked spaces between the fasciae. 1797, Transactions of the Linnean Society - Volume 3, page 54:
3. (countable, uncountable) Alternative form of fructification. ▸ The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
   • In parasitic species the hyphae spread in the intercellular spaces of the host and produce asexual fruitification, and acervulus, below the epidermis. 2001, S.M. Reddy, University Botany I : (Algae, Fungi, Bryophyta And Pteridophyta) Volume 1, →ISBN:
4. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of fruition.
   alt of fruition
   • We must also keep in mind that Gandhi did not live long enough to see through the fruitification of his vision. 2001, Kuruvila Pandikattu, Gandhi: The Meaning of Mahatma for the Millennium, →ISBN, page 67:
5. (countable, uncountable) The addition of fruit (to something)
   • The owners of Sloppy Joe's in Havana, too, may bear some responsibility for the fruitification of the drink. 2014, Robert Simonson, The Old-Fashioned: The Story of the World's First Classic Cocktail, with recipes and lore, →ISBN:

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