fruiting

fruit

 (fro͞ot)

n. pl. fruit or fruits

1.

a. The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

b. An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.

c. A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.

2. The fertile, often spore-bearing structure of a plant that does not bear seeds.

3. A plant crop or product: the fruits of the earth.

4. Result; outcome: the fruit of their labor.

5. Offspring; progeny.

6. A fruity aroma or flavor in a wine.

7. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

intr. & tr.v. fruit·ed, fruit·ing, fruits

To produce or cause to produce fruit.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin frūctus, enjoyment, fruit, from past participle of fruī, to enjoy.]

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Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

fruiting - capable of bearing fruit mature - having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

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