fructification

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The threads of which they are composed are jointed, and generally unbranched; they are of various tints of blue, red, and green, and, where their fructification has been ascertained, are propagated by cell division.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter

The chill which poverty breathes over the mind is as unfriendly to the unfolding of the intellectual germs, as the icy atmosphere of winter is to the fructification of vegetable seed.

From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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