fructify
pronunciation
How to pronounce fructify in British English:
UK ['frʌktɪfaɪ]
How to pronounce fructify in American English:
US [ˈfrʌktəˌfaɪ, ˈfrʊk-]
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- Verb:
- become productive or fruitful
- make productive or fruitful
- bear fruit
Word Origin
- fructify
- fructify: see fruit
- fructify (v.)
- mid-14c., "bear fruit," from Old French fructifiier "bear fruit, grow, develop" (12c.), from Late Latin fructificare "bear fruit," from Latin fructus "fruit, crops; profit, enjoyment" (see fruit) + root of facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Transitive use from 1580s. Related: Fructified; fructifying; fructification.
Example
- 1. These fruit trees start to fructify in next year .
- 2. These fruit trees start fructify in next year .
- 3. His endeavors through the entire summer have begun to fructify .
- 4. The dalmatian dog has good physical endowment , the skeleton fructify but strong and healthy , but will never be rough .
- 5. Even as regards the objects that come within the scope of attention , primitive social customs tend to arrest observation and imagination upon qualities which do not fructify in the mind .