| 单词 | fructify |
| 释义 | fructify (once / 9141 pages) v A newly planted apple tree can take years to fructify, but when it does there will be plenty of apples to go around. To fructify is to “produce fruit,” or “become fruitful.” Fructify means “to bear fruit,” as in “Soon the orange grove will fructify and we will harvest the oranges.” Fructify can also refer to a seed that grows or fructifies into a healthy plant. More generally, though, the verb fructify means either “to make productive” or “to become productive.” Investing money can fructify medical research, which will in turn fructify with new cures and treatments. You could say that a company will fructify, or become fruitful, if everyone works together. WORD FAMILYfructify: fructification, fructified, fructifies, fructifying+/fructification: fructifications USAGE EXAMPLESOr rather, it was a productive and fructifying pain. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye(1970) Those discussions fructified into the present partnership more than a year later. Forbes(Jul 04, 2013) Thoughts can be awakened and fructified as a field is fructified by sunshine and rain. Mach, Ernst, Popular scientific lectures(2012) 1v make productive or fruitful The earth that he fructified Hyper ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate to make better 2v become productive or fruitful The seeds fructified Hyper ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate get better 3v bear fruit the apple trees fructify Syn|Hyper set multiply, procreate, reproduce have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant |
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