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Fructify

Fructify Meaning & Definition
Fructify Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Fructify?

[v] bear fruit, of plants
[v] make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified"
[v] become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Fructify: set

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | ameliorate | amend | better | improve | meliorate | multiply | procreate | reproduce

Fructify In Webster's Dictionary

\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.
\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.

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