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English Dictionary: fructify by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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"
    Synonym(s): fructify, set
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\ (fr[ucr]k"t[icr]*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. [bd]Causeth the earth to fructify.[b8]
      --Beveridge.
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