fruit
noun
any product of plant growth useful to humans or animals.
are fruiting
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present progressiveof fruit.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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More recently the pest has turned its attention to the Persian walnuts which are fruiting in many places in the east.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The ground is kept well worked and free from weeds, whilst the plants are fruiting, and occasionally the ground is mulched, as is the case in the plot shown in the illustration.
From Fruits of Queensland by Albert H. Benson
Numerous seedlings from the original Hobson tree began fruiting in their second season of growth, and half of the ones I have are fruiting during their fourth season.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 by Northern Nut Growers Association
It is not the lighted houses, or the close-curtained windows behind which Christmas trees are fruiting; nor yet, in Friendship, will it be the post-office store or the home bakery windows, gay with Christmas trappings.
From Friendship Village by Zona Gale
Practically all are in bearing with attractive clusters of nuts, and some are fruiting heavily.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 by Northern Nut Growers Association
