The process, season, or state of bearing fruit.

The action or process of fructifying or producing fruit (now rare exc. Botany). Also fecundation, fertilization (? obsolete).

Of a plant, esp. a tree: the state or stage of bearing flowers or fruit. Obsolete.

The action of fruit, v.; the process of bearing fruit. †In early use concrete: Offspring.

the action of bearing fruit; †concrete a crop of fruit (in quot. figurative).