Definition of "fructifying" [fructifying]

• Present participle of fructify. (verb)

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• "The gentlest of the winds, Zephyrus is known as the fructifying wind, the messenger of spring."
• "The scent was overripe, oversweet, mortifying and fructifying."
• "I find convincing the argument that there was some intellectual activity in non-Muslim lands for a few centuries after the initial conquest, as long as the Christians and Jews (in the Middle East) were still a significant and fructifying influence, and that when they ceased to be, such activity came to an abrupt end."