Fructify

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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" [syn: {fructify},
       {set}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fructify \Fruc"ti*fy\ (fr[u^]k"t[i^]*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. "Causeth the earth to fructify." --Beveridge.
   [1913 Webster]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "fructify":
      be fruitful, be productive, bear, bear fruit, beget, bring forth,
      cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize,
      dress, engender, enrich, fatten, fecundify, fertilize, fruit,
      furnish, get with child, get with young, impregnate, inseminate,
      manure, multiply, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, produce,
      proliferate, prolificate, pullulate, reproduce, spermatize, teem,
      yield
antiflux / dictionary / Fructify
[email protected]