fructification Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the bearing of fruit
  2. noun organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)

WordNet

Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion noun
Etymology
L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.
Definitions
  1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
    The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.
  2. (Bot.) (a) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores. (b) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

Webster 1913