Caprification is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CAPRIFICATION in dictionary:

NOUN [HORTICULTURE.]:
• a method of artificial pollination of fig trees by wasps that prick the buds on branches of the caprifig that have been hung in trees of the edible fig.
NOUN:
• a method of promoting the pollination of figs by hanging branches of caprifig flowers so that parasitic gall-wasps living on the female flowers can carry pollen to the wild fig
• The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• artificial pollination of figs that usually bear only pistillate flowers by hanging male flowering branches of the caprifig in the trees to facilitate pollen transfer by a fig wasp

Words related to CAPRIFICATION

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Words that contain CAPRIFICATION

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How to use CAPRIFICATION in a sentence

• Some varieties of figs do not need caprification, but they are said to be unsuitable for drying or shipment.

Similar words containing CAPRIFICA without suffix tion

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