fruitingn.
/ˈfruːtɪŋ/ The action of fruit v.; the process of bearing fruit. †In early use concrete: Offspring.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > [noun] > progeny or offspring
bairn-teamc885
childeOE
tudderc897
seedOE
teamOE
wastum971
offspringOE
i-cundeOE
fostera1175
i-streonc1175
strainc1175
brooda1300
begetc1300
barm-teamc1315
issuea1325
progenyc1330
fruit of the loinsa1340
bowel1382
young onec1384
suita1387
engendrurea1400
fruitinga1400
geta1400
birth?a1425
porturec1425
progenityc1450
bodyfauntc1460
generation1477
fryc1480
enfantement1483
infantment1483
blood issue1535
propagation1536
offspring1548
race1549
family?1552
increase1552
breed1574
begetting1611
sperm1641
bed1832
fruitage1850
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [noun] > action or stage of bearing fruit
fruitage1578
fructification1604
puberty1800
fruiting1862
fructuation1885
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 12257 Þat þe geld þair fruiting find.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 488 A..white frost, will..check the fruiting of the trees for several years.
1871–2 H. Macmillan True Vine iii. 115 The period of..fruiting is accelerated..by grafting.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
fruitingadj.
/ˈfruːtɪŋ/ Bearing fruit; fruiting body n. = fruit-body n. at fruit n. Compounds 2; also occasionally applied to spore-producing bacteria.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > plant that bears fruit > [adjective] > bearing fruit or fruitful
fruitfula1300
birthel-treea1325
fructified14..
fructive14..
fructuosec1440
fructifiable1623
fructiferous1632
frugiferous1633
frugiferent1656
pregnant1669
prolific1738
fruiting1778
fruited1786
fruitening1845
fructificative1887
the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > parts of > reproductive parts
capsule1693
perithecium1800
aecidium1821
hymenium1830
pseudoperidium1832
pseudoperithecium1832
disc1842
trichidium1842
spicule1843
sporophore1849
stylospore1851
pycnide1856
cyst1857
pycnidium1857
basidium1858
cystidium1858
basidiospore1859
conidium1861
pollinarium1861
gonosphere1865
hymenophorum1866
spicula1866
teleutospore1866
promycelium1867
gonosphaerium1873
hymenophore1874
paracyst1874
sterigma1874
pollinodium1875
scolecite1875
uredospore1875
metuloid1879
operculum1879
uredo1879
aecidiospore1880
pycnidiospore1880
uredo-fruit1882
chlamydospore1884
teleutosorus1884
fruitcake1885
ascocarp1887
periplasm1887
pycnospore1887
pyrenocarp1887
macrostylospore1894
autobasidium1895
oidium1895
zygophore1904
aeciospore1905
aecium1905
pycniospore1905
teliospore1905
telium1905
uredinium1905
uredosorus1905
fruit-body1912
sporodochium1913
probasidium1916
fruiting body1918
pycnium1926
holobasidium1928
protoperithecium1937
uredium1937
1778 W. Cowper Let. 3 Dec. (1979) I. 288 He has presented me with Six Fruiting Pines.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 178 Galium uliginosum..fruiting pedicels erect.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 289 [Of Horsetail] The fertile or fruiting stem is unbranched.
1894 F. A. Steel Potter's Thumb (1895) 161 A shingled hut, hung with flowering, fruiting gourds.
1918 R. C. Hawley & A. F. Hawes Man. Forestry Northeast. U.S. (ed. 2) vii. 125 These fruiting bodies are the only part of the fungus visible to the naked eye.
1944 Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. & Med. 56 18 The production of fruiting bodies in aqueous media is a new observation.
1962 W. 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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n.a1400
adj.1778