Word.ws English Dictionary

fruit-set

fruit-set is the alternative form of fruitset.

Meaning of fruitset

Noun

fruitset (countable and uncountable, plural fruitsets)

  1. A set of fruits from the same organism.
  2. The "setting" (beginning of growing) of fruit, resulting from successful pollination.
    • Later, Schaible (49) also noticed that tomato fruit-set is generally poor when the night temperature exceeds 23 °C. Howlett (25) points out that both night and day temperatures are important factors limiting tomato fruit-set.1979, Robert Cowell, 1st International Symposium on Tropical Tomato

Forms of fruit-set

pluralfruit-sets

Questions about fruit-set

What is fruit-set the alternative form of?
Fruit-set is the alternative form of fruitset.

Words near fruit-set in the dictionary

  1. fruit-eater
  2. fruit-eaters
  3. fruit-growing
  4. fruit-juice
  5. fruit-juices
  6. fruit-set
  7. fruit-shop
  8. fruit-shops
  9. fruit-time
  10. fruit-times
  11. fruit-tree

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fruit-set (page history and authors); fruitset (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “fruit-set.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/fruit-set. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.