noun
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the process, state, or season of producing fruit
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fruit collectively
Etymology
Origin of fruitage
1570–80; < Middle French fruit ( er ) to bear fruit + -age -age
Example Sentences
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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
Earlier fruitage can certainly be secured on sand cherry stocks and under other methods of training.
From Dwarf Fruit Trees Their propagation, pruning, and general management, adapted to the United States and Canada by F. A. Waugh
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 F. A. Waugh
Nearly all its blossoms fell off without fruitage.
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
What would you have more than some wayside evidences of the serene summer yet to follow, and an intellectual fruitage, of which the gold and purple of the vintage are but the faintest symbols?
From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett
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