fructification

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The larger species assumed a complexity in the structure of their stems unknown in their modern congeners, and enabling them to grow to a great height;31 but their foliage and fructification were not correspondingly advanced.

From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William

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

Upper end of a Rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus, reduced half or more, b, the fructification.

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

Verlaine, however, was not of Alsatian extraction but belonged to Lorraine, close enough to Germany to bear in his blood the secret fructification of the German Lied.

From Paul Verlaine by Zweig, Stefan

The fructification of Ferns is borne on the back or under side of the leaves.

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