The process, season, or state of bearing fruit.

Fruit collectively; a crop of fruit. Now rare.

A crop of fruit developed by fertilizing (see set, v.1 98). ? Obsolete.

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

An abundant crop of fruit (i.e. one that turns out a success). western dialect.

(a) see top-fruit n.; (b) Mining an outcrop.