NOUN
- the bearing of fruit
- organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)
How To Use fructification In A Sentence
- Researchers from France, China and ESRF have identified enigmatic fossils from Devonian (400 million years) as fructification of charophyte algae. A Bit of Science, a Bit of Politics
- Calamites, a species of fossil plants of the coal measures, with but slight change appeared as ` ` The True Fructification of Literary Blunders
- Stems, leaves and, fructifications may not look well preserved in the field, and as they occur in cemented rocks that do not break along bedding planes they can easily be missed.
- Thus the title of a paper in the Philosophical Transactions was curiously changed in an advertisement, and the Calamites, a species of fossil plants of the coal measures, with but slight change appeared as "The True Fructification of Calamities. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
- Lamouroux described the fructification as capsules joined to form rather large blackish spots scattered over both surfaces of the frond.
- Slime molds, in general, are decomposers that cover low-lying plants with plasmodium and fructification without ‘infecting ‘them, for example Diachea thomasii and Physarum cinerea.
- Plasmodiocarps are the most primitive type of fructification, while sporangia are the most advanced.
- Bass suggested that the fossils might represent fructifications of angiosperms or gymnosperms, or perhaps both, but said formal identifications had not been made.
- But the solidungula as having prominent teeth in both their front jaws, can crop the grass and grasp it with their teeth while short, and delight more in short grass than in rank; for, in general, short grass is better and more substantial than rank, as having not yet given out its fructification. On The Articulations
- They focused their attention not only on the surface appearance of things but also on their interiors, particularly the organs of fructification and generation.