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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

fructus

fruit.]

(Bot.)

The maturing or ripening of fruit.

[R.]

Martyn.

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.

fructescence ‎(countable and uncountable, plural fructescences)

(botany) The maturing or ripening of fruit.
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