fructification

1. (botany) The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.Examples: "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."countableuncountable

2. (botany) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.Examples: "The fructification is liable to become very convex in age."; "The essence of the fructification consists in the flower and the fruit."; "Postheterotopic transformations played a great role in the evolution of fructifications. The formation of specialized seed-like sporophylls in the Lepidocarpaceae, of strobilar fructifications in the Noeggerathiales, of various capsules and other seed-bearing organs of many gymnosperms belong here."countableuncountable