fructification
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The larger species assumed a complexity in the structure of their stems unknown in their modern congeners, and enabling them to grow to a great height;31 but their foliage and fructification were not correspondingly advanced.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Sir J. William Dawson
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 Asa Gray
The chill which poverty breathes over the mind is as unfriendly to the unfolding of the intellectual germs, as the icy atmosphere of winter is to the fructification of vegetable seed.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
Cladonia coccinea; the fructification is in the scarlet knobs, which surround the cups.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
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 Charles Bradlaugh
