Fructify

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\ (fr[u^]k"t[i^]*f[imac]), v. i. [F.
     fructifier, L. fructificare; fructus fruit + -ficare (only in
     comp.), akin to L. facere to make. See {Fruit}, and {Fact}.]
     To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." --Beveridge.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fructified}; p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Fructifying}.]
     To make fruitful; to render productive; to fertilize; as, to
     fructify the earth.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fructify
       v 1: become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified"
       2: make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified"
       3: bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify" [syn: {set}]
       [also: {fructified}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "fructify":
     be fruitful, be productive, bear, bear fruit, beget, bring forth,
     cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize,
     dress, engender, enrich, fatten, fecundify, fertilize, fruit,
     furnish, get with child, get with young, impregnate, inseminate,
     manure, multiply, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, produce,
     proliferate, prolificate, pullulate, reproduce, spermatize, teem,
     yield