ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fruiting

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Fruiting is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of fruit.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of fruit.

More Meanings

  1. (countable) A fruiting body.
  2. (uncountable) The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.
  3. (uncountable, aviation) The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time).

Example Sentences

Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.
In this way, the problems of fruiting, garbling and over-interrogation are overcome.
These factors differ from mushroom to mushroom. Most of the changes that stimulate fruiting have a negative effect on the vegetative growth of the mycelium.
How many breakdowns or serious impairments of function (quality of return, fruiting, degradation, etc.) did your radar and communications equipment have today?

Word Forms

Synonyms for fruiting

Depending on context, synonyms include mature.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mature, fruitbody, fruitification, mushroom, fructification, fruiter.

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