Fructify

['frʌktɪfaɪ]

Definition

(verb.) bear fruit; 'the apple trees fructify'.

(verb.) make productive or fruitful; 'The earth that he fructified'.

(verb.) become productive or fruitful; 'The seeds fructified'.

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Definition

(v. i.) To bear fruit.

(v. t.) To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Fertilize, make fruitful.

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Definition

v.t. to make fruitful: to fertilise.—v.i. to bear fruit.—adj. Fruct′ed (her.) bearing fruit.—n. Fructes′cence the time for the ripening of fruit.—adj. Fructif′erous bearing fruit.—ns. Fructificā′tion act of fructifying or producing fruit: (bot.) a term denoting sometimes the whole reproductive system sometimes the 'fruit' itself; Fruc′tose fruit sugar or levulose; Fruc′tuary one enjoying the fruits of anything.—adj. Fruc′tuous full of fruit.

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