Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun fructification
2 senses of fructification
Sense 1
fructification -- (the bearing of fruit)
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis -- ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children")
Sense 2
fructification -- (organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses))
=> reproductive structure -- (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)