fructification

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The cup, or shield-shaped spot, or knob, which bears the fructification is named the Apothecium.

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

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 Gray, Asa

The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses of various shapes.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Cladonia coccinea; the fructification is in the scarlet knobs, which surround the cups.

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

He made the stamina and pistils the basis of his arrangement, which he was induced to do from the consideration of their great importance, as the parts most essential to fructification.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William