fructification

Definition

The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

Etymology

From fructi- + -fication.

Example Sentences

• "In nature, the wild hop is usually shadowed during its growing period by bushes and trees, and it is only those aboveground parts which are intensively illuminated which pass into fructification period."
• "Lucuma salicifolia (canistal) and Micropholis mexicana (wild apricot) are the most infested fruit species. They have a very short fructification period."
• "Studying the duration of the flowering-fructification period among interspecific first-generation back-cross progenies of African species showed that this trait is positively correlated (r=0.78) with 100-seed weight and caffeine content."