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fructification

[fruhk-tuh-fi-key-shuhn, frook-, frook-] / ˌfrʌk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌfrʊk-, ˌfruk- /


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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

The same functions of storage in advance of fructification are also exercised by the stromata so common in Ascomycetes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Spore, a body resulting from the fructification of Cryptogamous plants, in them the analogue of a seed.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray

In its perfect state this germinates and produces the Claviceps fructification.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The fructification forms in the substance of the tips of the frond: the rough dots mark the places where the conceptacles open.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray




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