fructification

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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 Gray, Asa

With these and reasonable perseverance the structure of the flowers and fructification of most phanerogamous plants and Ferns can be made out.

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

Any sudden decrease of warmth would be very prejudicial to the progress of vegetation through the successive stages of foliation, inflorescence and fructification.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

The fructification is an urn-shaped spore-case, in this as in most cases raised on a slender stalk.

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

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