fructification
noun
fructification is a noun meaning “The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-U-C-T-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fructification is fructifications.
What does fructification mean?
noun
- 1
The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation.
- 2
The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fructification?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Yangolin-fructification.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fructification
- fructifications plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fructification?
Fructification appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fructification come from?
From fructi- + -fication.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).