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🍎 To bear fruit 🌱 To become productive
to fructify

to fructify

1 9.9
To produce fruit on a tree or plant
  • verb
  • /ˈfrʌktɪˌfaɪ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : fructificar
  • After years of care, the garden began to fructify with an array of colorful flowers.

Examples

  • None of us went to church, so we had a lot of time to watch them, the two parents leached of color, like photographic negatives, and then the five glittering daughters in their homemade dresses, all lace and ruffle, bursting with their fructifying flesh.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The plant grows, is fructified, and produces barleycorns again; as soon as these are ripe, the ear withers away and is negated.

    Blog text (5)

  • In spring, the apple tree will fructify and produce a bounty of fruit.

  • Once the conditions are right, the vines will fructify and yield delicious grapes.

Synonyms

to set
vsto fructify
  • Specialized
14 4.9

To begin producing fruit or seeds after flowering

refers more generally to making seeds or ripe parts at any stage
to fruit
vsto fructify
6 4.4

To make seeds and edible parts on a plant

is the identical meaning but differs only in word form

Antonyms

to sterilize
  • Specialized
15 5.8

To make a person or animal unable to have children by a medical operation

How Fruitful

yield
257 4.1
to fructify
  • Specialized
1 9.9
to set
  • Specialized
14 4.9
to flower
40 1.0

Surface Forms

fructify infinitive
fructified past
fructified past participle
fructifying present participle
fructifies third person singular

Morphology

fructify = fruit (semi-transparent) = fruct + ify

Formed with the combining form 'fruct-' (related to 'fruit') plus the productive verb-forming suffix '-ify'; spelling difference and the non‑standalone 'fruct-' may confuse learners even though the meaning 'produce fruit' is predictable.

Etymology

Fructify comes from the Latin fructus, which means 'fruit'. So to fructify is to 'produce fruit', like a tree that makes apples.