fructify — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Động từ

1. To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.

   Cách dùng

   • nội động từ

   Ví dụ

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   Atop the [Palmito] tree is a pith, in taſte better then Cabbage; and eating it takes avvay the future benefit of grovvth or fructifying, theſe and the Date-tree thriue not, except the male and female be vnited, and haue copulation: the ſhe is only fruitfull.

   Then one evening early in November Beedel rang Mr Carrados up. The blind man happened to take the call himself, and at the first words he knew that the dull, patient shadowing of weeks was about to fructify.

   It is good to detect hints of a more aggressive attitude from the B.T.C. in face of constant reminders of accumulated deficits and niggling for economies before modernisation schemes have had a chance fully to fructify […].

2. To make productive or fruitful.

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   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

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   When fruit trees are to be planted it is good practice to plant alternate rows of different varieties of the same fruit, because the pollen of one variety is often wanted to fructify or fertilise the flowers of another.

   He slew the Bull (symbol of the gross Earth which the sunlight fructifies).

Động từ

1. become productive or fruitful

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   betterimproveamelioratemeliorate

   Ví dụ

   The seeds fructified

2. make productive or fruitful

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   betterimproveamendamelioratemeliorate

   Ví dụ

   The earth that he fructified

3. produce fruit

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   set

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   reproduceprocreatemultiply

   Ví dụ

   the apple trees fructify