Fruitling

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A small or immature fruit.

    "Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear."

Example

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"Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear."

Etymology

From fruit + -ling.

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