fruitage

American  

[froo-tij] / ˈfru tɪdʒ /

noun

1. the bearing of fruit.

   soil additives to hasten the fruitage.

2. fruits collectively.

3. product or result.

   This year's fruitage was of better quality.

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fruitage British  

/ ˈfruːtɪdʒ /

noun

1. the process, state, or season of producing fruit

2. fruit collectively

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Etymology

Origin of fruitage

1570–80; < Middle French fruit ( er ) to bear fruit + -age -age

Example Sentences

But if religion is to have its full value as a 'last resort' in times of peril or affliction, it must have deep rootage, broad leafage and ample fruitage in the normal circumstances of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

You may have noticed that trees and plants, when they feel the approach of decay, sometimes seem to hasten their fruitage just at the last.

From Memorial of Mrs. Lucy Gilpatrick Marsh delivered June 22, 1868. by Thompson, A. C.

Corn fills her plains, and fruitage loads her trees.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Dwellers on any ground have right to all the trees of fruitage on it, e. g., palm-nuts, and other natural wild edible nuts.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill

It is terribly discouraging, under such circumstances, to plant a tree knowing that ten years must pass before any considerable fruitage can be expected from it.

From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by Waugh, F. A.

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