Also FRUCTIST. [f. L. frūct-us FRUIT + -IC -IST.] One who classifies plants by their fruit.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857), III. 253. Linnæus … began by being a fructicist.
1886. Thompson in Encycl. Brit., XX. 301/1. He [Ray] was no longer a fructicist but a corollist.
