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Definition of Caprification
1. n. The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.
Definition of Caprification
1. Noun. A process for pollinating figs by hanging clusters of wild fig flowers (of genus ''Caprificus'') in the trees (pollen being transferred by wasps) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caprification
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caprification
Literary usage of Caprification
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
""caprification" is a botanico-entomological operation consisting in the transfer
of certain minute insects which develop in the seeds of the ..."
2. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"The object of this would be alike to make the tree bear and to improve the fruit.
Of remedies for the shedding of the fruit : caprification. VIII. ..."
3. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1829)
"I 37- caprification.—Tournefort, in his Travels, mentions that, in Provence, the
maturation of figs was hastened by pricking them at the open end with a ..."
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