fructify

English

Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French fructefier.

Verb

fructify (third-person singular simple present fructifies, present participle fructifying, simple past and past participle fructified)

1. (intransitive) To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.
2. (transitive) To make productive or fruitful.
3. (transitive) To be satisfied sexually.

   Once the male has been fructified, the female black widow spider kills and eats him.

Translations

to bear fruit

• Bulgarian: нося плод (nosja plod)
• French: fructifier (fr)

  Old French: fructefier

• Greek: καρποφορώ (el) (karpoforó)
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• Ido: fruktifar (io)
• Italian: fruttificare (it)
• Spanish: fructificar (es)
• Swedish: bära frukt (sv)