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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the bearing of fruit;

2. organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses);


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fructification \Fruc`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. fructificatio: cf. F. fructification.] 1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. [1913 Webster] The prevalent fructification of plants. --Sir T. Brown. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fructification n 1: the bearing of fruit 2: organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)