fructify means to bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.
fructify is pronounced /ˈfɹʌktɪfaɪ/.
Why “fructify” is a great word
FRUCTIFY — [Verb] To make or become fruitful or productive, literally or figuratively. From Middle English *fructifien*, borrowed from Old French *fructifier*, from Late Latin *frūctificāre*, from Latin *frūctus* ("fruit, profit") + *-ficāre* (a combining form of *facere*, "to make"). First recorded in English 1275–1325. Unlike "flourish," which suggests a state of vigorous thriving, or "proliferate," which emphasizes rapid multiplication, to fructify is to achieve the quiet, tangible yield of an endeavor. It is the slow swell of an ovary into a ripe pear, the patient application of a theory that finally explains a stubborn fact, and the long-planted seed of an idea maturing into a life's work—the hopeful testament that not all potential withers on the vine.
Etymology
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French fructefier.
verb
- To bear fruit; to generate useful products or ideas.“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.”
- To make productive or fruitful.“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.”