Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That which produces fruit.
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Examples
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They passed a tomato plant, and another fruit-bearer they could not identify, and several other types of growth straggling among the evidently weakened ponics.
Starship Aldiss, Brian 1959
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Men are to be known by their fruits, not by their professions; and what a prolific fruit-bearer was here!
Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 No Author 1871
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Did He create this fruit-bearer of sin in contra -
Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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