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▪ I. fruiting, vbl. n.|ˈfruːtɪŋ|
[f. fruit v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. fruit; the process of bearing fruit. † In early use concr.: Offspring.
a1300Cursor M. 12257 (Gött.) Þat þe geld þair fruiting find. 1862Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxi. (ed.2) 488 A..white frost, will..check the fruiting of the trees for several years. 1871–2H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 115 The period of..fruiting is accelerated..by grafting.
▪ II. fruiting, ppl. a.|ˈfruːtɪŋ|
[f. fruit v. + -ing2.]
Bearing fruit; fruiting body = fruit-body; also occas. applied to spore-producing bacteria.
1778Cowper Let. 3 Dec., He has presented me with six fruiting pines. 1870Hooker Stud. Flora 178 Galium uliginosum..fruiting pedicels erect. 1872Oliver Elem. Bot. ii. 289 [Of Horsetail] The fertile or fruiting stem is unbranched. 1894F. A. Steel Potter's Thumb (1895) 161 A shingled hut, hung with flowering, fruiting gourds. 1918Hawley & Hawes Man. Forestry Northeast. U.S. vii. 125 These fruiting bodies are the only part of the fungus visible to the naked eye. 1944Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med. LVI. 18 The production of fruiting bodies in aqueous media is a new observation. 1962W. P. K. Findlay Preservation of Timber ii. 16 A fruiting body of one of the larger bracket fungi may produce over eight hundred million spores per hour. |