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
If one of these essential elements be lacking, the result is fatal to the fruitage.
From Farm Boys and Girls by William Arch McKeever
Small gains to learning on this earth accrue, They pluck life's fruitage, learning who eschew; Take pattern by the fools who learning shun, And then perchance shall fortune smile on you.
From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
Thus soliloquizing, she went from clump to clump of the low bushes till they were bereft of their fruitage.
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh
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