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Webster 1913 Edition

Fructescence

Fruc-tes′cence

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Noun.

[L.

fructus

fruit.]

(Bot.)

The maturing or ripening of fruit.

[R.]

Martyn.

Webster 1828 Edition

Fructescence

FRUCTES'CENCE

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Noun.

[from L. fructus, fruit. See Fruit.]

In botany, the precise time when the fruit of a plant arrives at maturity, and its seeds are dispersed; the fruiting season.