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
But the sustained power gained from the full and rich study of longer classics is the best fruitage of the reading work.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)
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 Waugh, F. A.
At all events, another season of fruitage ought not to be allowed to pass without some concerted action for the purpose of testing the question.
From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various
Then, as Mr. Hamilton Gibson explained it to me, will come the blossoming, and lastly perfect fruitage.
From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
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