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INFRUCTESCENCE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does infructescence mean?
• INFRUCTESCENCE (noun)
The noun INFRUCTESCENCE has 1 sense:
1. the fruiting stage of the inflorescence
Familiarity information: INFRUCTESCENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The fruiting stage of the inflorescence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("infructescence" is a kind of...):
development; growing; growth; maturation; ontogenesis; ontogeny ((biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level)
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