fructify

Verb
Synonyms: set

WordNet 3.0

Verb (3)

  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”Synonyms: set
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]
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]
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