fructify
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
— Atop the [Palmito] tree is a pith, in taſte better then Cabbage; and eating it takes avvay the future benefit of grovvth or fructifying, theſe and the Date-tree thriue not, except the male and female be vnited, and haue copulation: the ſhe is only fruitfull.
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To make productive or fruitful.
— When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another.
词汇关系
词源
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.
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