fructification
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A heavy rainfall while the trees are in flower will seriously damage the plants by washing away the pollen and thus preventing fructification.
From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper
Ferns, with fronds circinate in vernation, bearing the fructification on the under surface or beneath the margin.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Browne's contemporary, Dean Wren, seems sadly to have misunderstood the fructification of the Oak.
From Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk More Especially on the Birds and Fishes by Sir Thomas Browne
Asperococcus derives its name from its roughened surface, occasioned by the thickly scattered spots of fructification.
From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray
Cryptogamia, krip-to-gā′mi-a, n. the class of flowerless plants, or those which have their fructification concealed.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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