Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fruiting of a plant; also, the time when the fruit, of a plant attains maturity; the fruiting season.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.), rare The maturing or ripening of fruit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The maturing or
ripening offruit .
Etymologies
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Latin fructus fruit.
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