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fructal

fructal adjective: of or relating to fruit.

Adjective

fructal

  1. (rare) Of or relating to fruit.
    • Even after the mild breath of spring has begun to kindle a light of blossoms on our boughs, in the gradual progression of our seasons, yet a long time must elapse ere summer’s warmer smile shall have ripened the flowers into fruit: while awaiting her slow coming, we are glad to avail ourselves...1866, Mrs. [William] Bayle Bernard, “The Date”, in Our Common Fruits. A Descriptive Account of Those Ordinarily Cultivated Or Consumed in Great Britain., London: Frederick Warne and Co., […], page 94
    • It is characterized by its erect, shrubby habit, silvery pubescence, large flowers, narrow leaflets, and manner of fructal dehiscence.1924, Ivan Murray Johnston, The Botany (The Vascular Plants), California Academy of Sciences, page 1044
    Synonyms:
    fruital

Examples of fructal in a sentence

  • Since fructal characters are required for certain determination, exsiccatae lacking fruit but otherwise agreeing with this taxon will be indicated with an asterisk (*).1964, Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 12, page 98:
  • Line drawings of a stem fragment and floral/fructal parts appear in Wheeler (1941) as Euphorbia fendleri var. triligulata.2007, Jackie M. Poole, William R. Carr, Dana M. Price, Jason R. Singhurst, Rare Plants of Texas, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page...
  • Eliot provides us with one last twist on this fructal theme.2021, Adam Roberts, Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors, Open Book Publishers, →ISBN:

Synonyms of fructal

Origin of fructal

From Latin frūctus + -al.

Questions about fructal

What does fructal mean?
Fructal means of or relating to fruit.
How do you use fructal in a sentence?
Since fructal characters are required for certain determination, exsiccatae lacking fruit but otherwise agreeing with this taxon will be indicated with an asterisk (*).
What part of speech is fructal?
Fructal is an adjective.

Words near fructal in the dictionary

  1. Fruchter
  2. Fruchthandler
  3. fruchtschiefer
  4. fruck
  5. fruckies
  6. fructal
  7. fructan
  8. fructanase
  9. fructanases
  10. fructanohydrolase
  11. fructanohydrolases

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