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[syn: fructify, set]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\ (fr[u^]k"t[i^]*f[imac]), v. i. [F.
fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in
comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See Fruit, and Fact.]
To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." --Beveridge.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fructified; p. pr.
& vb. n. Fructifying.]
To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to
fructify the earth.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
fructify
v 1: become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified"
2: make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified"
3: bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify" [syn: fructify,
set]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "fructify":
be fruitful, be productive, bear, bear fruit, beget, bring forth,
cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize,
dress, engender, enrich, fatten, fecundify, fertilize, fruit,
furnish, get with child, get with young, impregnate, inseminate,
manure, multiply, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, produce,
proliferate, prolificate, pullulate, reproduce, spermatize, teem,
yield