FRUCTIFY (fructified)

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Irregular inflected form: fructified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does fructify mean? 

• FRUCTIFY (verb)
  The verb FRUCTIFY has 3 senses:

1. become productive or fruitful

2. make productive or fruitful

3. bear fruit

  Familiarity information: FRUCTIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUCTIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they fructify    ... he / she / it fructifies   
Past simple: fructified   
Past participle: fructified   
-ing form: fructifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Become productive or fruitful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The seeds fructified

Hypernyms (to "fructify" is one way to...):

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

fructification (the bearing of fruit)

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make productive or fruitful

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The earth that he fructified

Hypernyms (to "fructify" is one way to...):

ameliorate; amend; better; improve; meliorate (to make better)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Bear fruit

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fructify; set

Context example:

the apple trees fructify

Hypernyms (to "fructify" is one way to...):

multiply; procreate; reproduce (have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

fructification (the bearing of fruit)

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)