Fruit-bearing

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act or process of bearing or producing fruit. countable, uncountable
Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing fruit. not-comparable, usually

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fructiferouspomiferous

Example

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"Fruits are picked from fruit-bearing trees. The apple is round. The pear and the fig are somewhat long."

Etymology

From Middle English *fruit-berende, *fruit-berand (found in compounds: olife froite berand, oliue fruitberand), equivalent to fruit + bearing. Compare Old English wæstmbǣre (literally “fruit-bearing”).

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