Definition of Fruiting

1. Adjective. Capable of bearing fruit.

Similar to: Mature

Definition of Fruiting

1. a. Pertaining to, or producing, fruit.

2. n. The bearing of fruit.

Definition of Fruiting

1. Verb. (present participle of fruit) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fruiting

1. fruit [v] - See also: fruit

Medical Definition of Fruiting

1. Pertaining to, or producing, fruit. The bearing of fruit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruiting

fruitestere
fruitflies
fruitfly
fruitful
fruitfull
fruitfuller
fruitfullest
fruitfully
fruitfulness
fruitfulnesses
fruitier
fruitiest
fruitily
fruitiness
fruitinesses
fruiting (current term)
fruiting bodies
fruiting body
fruitings
fruition
fruitions
fruitive
fruitless
fruitlessly
fruitlessness
fruitlessnesses
fruitlet
fruitlets
fruitlike
fruitloop

Literary usage of Fruiting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"fruiting calyx sharply 5-angled, more or less acuminate at the summit and ... Peduncles scarcely exceeding the fruiting calyx; leaves sharply dentate. 6. ..."

2. Handbook of Practical Botany: For the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1887)
"This branching gives to the fruiting branch the appearance of a brush. Commonly other lateral branches, which arise just under a partition wall of the ..."

3. Enquiry Into Plants and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs by Theophrastus (1916)
"Of the times of budding and fruiting of wild, as compared ivith cultivated, trees. ... But there is greater diversity in the time of fruiting ; as we said ..."

4. Minnesota Plant Diseases by Edward Monroe Freeman (1905)
"The pores on the under surface are small and rather deep and the layer in which they are found is easily separable from the rest of the fruiting bodies. ..."

5. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"fruiting involucre in the ... often slightly incised, rough and green both sides, on long petioles : fruiting involucre over half an inch long, thick, ..."

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