fructescence
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin fructus (“fruit”) + -escence.
Noun[edit]
fructescence (countable and uncountable, plural fructescences)
- (botany) The maturing or ripening of fruit.
- 1793, Thomas Martyn, The Language of Botany:
- Fructescence, or the fruiting season , is the time when vegetables scatter their ripe seeds
References[edit]
- “fructescence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.