- present participle of fruit.
Example Sentences
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His photography focuses on the fruiting bodies of the slime mould, where the colour and drama are most intense, and from where spores are released.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
At Taï, where chimps more often eat fruit that has fallen, the team similarly gathered undamaged and unbitten fruits from the ground below fruiting trees.
From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2025
To enable robots to navigate fields and harvest efficiently, many farms would need to plant fruiting walls—apple trees that have been trained to grow in dense canopies against flat vertical surfaces.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
Fungi Perfecti now specifies when its products are made of mushroom mycelium, though the designs are still adorned with mushroom fruiting bodies.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
I couldn't make it now without money, however, as there is very little fruiting agriculture down here at this time.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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