The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.

The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.

The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores.

general term for spore-bearing organs in both macro- and microfungi

Spore production by fungi; or, a structure in or on which spores are formed. Also a fruiting body.

the bearing of fruit

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

In the botanical sense, it is the action of forming or producing fruit or being fertile. Here it is used in a metaphorical sense. Return to Theme

(pl. = fructifications): Fruiting body

1. Synonymous with fruiting body. 2. The formation or development of a fruiting body. ( 16)

Fructification (Latin: fructificatio) is a term used in the plant morphology to denote the generative parts of the plant (flower and fruit) (as opposed to its vegetative parts: trunk, roots and leaves). Sometimes it is applied more broadly to the generative parts of gymnosperms, ferns, horsetails, and lycophytes, though they produce neither fruit nor flower.