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Definition of Fructify

1. Verb. Become productive or fruitful. "The seeds fructified"

2. Verb. Make productive or fruitful. "The earth that he fructified"

3. Verb. Bear fruit. "The apple trees fructify"

Definition of Fructify

1. v. i. To bear fruit.

2. v. t. To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth.

Definition of Fructify

1. Verb. (intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To make productive or fruitful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fructify

1. to bear fruit [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Medical Definition of Fructify

1. To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Origin: F. Fructifier, L. Fructificare; fructus fruit + ficare (only in comp), akin to L. Facere = to make. See Fruit, and Fact. To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to fructify the earth. Origin: Fructified; Fructifying. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fructify

fructan - fructan 6G-fructosyltransferase fructans fructed fructescence fructescences fructiculose fructidor fructiferous fructiferuos fructification

fructifications fructified fructifier fructifiers fructifies fructify (current term) fructifying fructive fructo- fructofuranan

fructofuranose fructofuranoses fructofuranoside fructofuranosides fructokinase fructokinases fructolysis fructooligosaccharide fructooligosaccharides fructopyranose

Literary usage of Fructify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Schenck's Theory: The Determination of Sex by Samuel Leopold Schenk (1898)
"The generative matter of the right testicle serves to fructify ova from which males are developed, that of the left testicle is used to fructify and develop ..."

2. Sophisms of Free-trade and Popular Political Economy Examined by John Barnard Byles (1912)
"... rather fructify in the pockets of the people." THIS has been the practical maxim of every ministry since the peace. As long as we can contrive to pay ..."

3. The Portola Expedition of 1769-1770, Diary of Miguel Costanso by Miguel Costansó, Frederick John Teggart, Manuel Carpio (1911)
"We may say the same in a mystical sense, as the gentleness of this people gave us great hopes that the word of God will fructify equally in their hearts. ..."

4. The Determination of Sex by Samuel Leopold Schenk (1898)
"The generative matter of the right testicle serves to fructify ova from which males are developed, that of the left testicle is used to fructify and develop ..."

5. A Commentary on the Book of Proverbs by Moses Stuart (1852)
"These distil the waters of the upper region upon the earth, and fructify it. — The clouds iB!^ , distil, ie gently drop or let fall, viz. the dew. ..."

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