Fruiting

noun, verb

noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A fruiting body. countable

    "Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps."

  2. 2
    The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification. uncountable

    "From these figures it will be seen that the fruiting period of cotton in the blacklands of Texas is relatively short, and a majority of the bolls are set early in the season."

  3. 3
    The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time). uncountable

    "How many breakdowns or serious impairments of function (quality of return, fruiting, degradation, etc.) did your radar and communications equipment have today?"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of fruit form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    capable of bearing fruit wordnet

Synonyms

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balmybearingboomingclearexuberantfair

Example

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"The fruiting season for the cherry trees is from June to July."

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