fructification

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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

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

At the apex of the stem appears the fructification, as it is called for lack of a better term, in the form of a short spike or head.

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

Upper end of a Rockweed, Fucus vesiculosus, reduced half or more, b, the fructification.

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