fructification

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This preservation of parts of fructification, and the pollen of coniferae, displays the art with which nature embalms her relics.

From The Bible: what it is by Bradlaugh, Charles

Small plant of Chondrus crispus, or Carrageen Moss, reduced in size, in fruit; the spots represent the fructification, consisting of numerous tetraspores in bunches in the substance of the plant.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

The cup, or shield-shaped spot, or knob, which bears the fructification is named the Apothecium.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

The threads of which they are composed are jointed, and generally unbranched; they are of various tints of blue, red, and green, and, where their fructification has been ascertained, are propagated by cell division.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Gray, Peter