Word Meanings - FRUCTIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown. The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds,
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1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown. The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.
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- COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - FRUIT
The pulpy, edible seed vessels of certain plants, especially those grown on branches above ground, as apples, oranges, grapes, melons, berries, etc. See 3. (more info) enjoyment, product, fruit, from frui, p. p. fructus, to enjoy; akin 1. Whatever - FRUITAGE
1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton. 2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - BROWNBACK
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - FRUITIVE
Eujoying; possessing. Boyle. - PREVALENTLY
In a prevalent manner. Prior. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - FRUCTIFY
To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge. (more info) fruit + ficare , akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria.