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fruitage

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fruit·age  (frtj)
n.
1.
a. The process, time, or condition of bearing fruit.
b. A yield of fruit.
2. A result or an effect.

fruitage [ˈfruːtɪdʒ]
n
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) the process, state, or season of producing fruit
2. fruit collectively

Fruitage, Fruitery fruit collectively, 1610.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.fruitage - the yield of fruit; "a tree highly recommended for its fruitage"
crop, harvest - the yield from plants in a single growing season


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My sister pined for her Spanish home all these years of exile; she was always talking of Spain to the child, and tending and nourishing the love of Spain in the little thing's heart as a precious flower; and she died happy in the knowledge that the fruitage of her patriotic labors was as rich as even she could desire.
My young friend was willing, in short, that the fresh verdure of his growing reputation should spread over my straggling and half-naked boughs; even as I have sometimes thought of training a vine, with its broad leafiness, and purple fruitage, over the worm-eaten posts and rafters of the rustic summer house.
A man is a bundle of relations, a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world.
 
 
 
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