Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FRUC-TES'CENCE
FRUC-TES'CENCE, n. [from L. fructus, fruit. See Fruit.]
In botany, the precise time when the fruit of a plant arrives at maturity, and its seeds are dispersed; the fruiting season. Milne. Martyn. Encyc.
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