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fruit-time

fruit-time noun: the time when plants bear fruit.

Noun

fruit-time (usually uncountable, plural fruit-times)

  1. (dated, literary, obsolete, usually) The time when plants bear fruit.
    • To one underneath the canopy, and looking upward in fruit time, the berries, as thick as hops, and as large as musket balls, appear hanging in clusters of three to nine or ten and sometimes more.1852, Southern Cultivator and Farming - Volume 10, page 368
    • Radical leaves several at fruit-time ovate;1882, Joseph Dalton Hooker, The Flora of British India - Volume 3, page 212
  2. (broadly, figuratively, usually) The time when something is mature.
    • Thence come songs whose fruit-time will inherit Butterflies from my light-hearted spirit.2014, Zsuzsanna Ozsvath, Frederick Turner, Light within the Shade: Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry, page 58

Forms of fruit-time

pluralfruit-times

Questions about fruit-time

What does fruit-time mean?
Fruit-time means the time when plants bear fruit.
What part of speech is fruit-time?
Fruit-time is a noun.
What is the plural of fruit-time?
The plural of fruit-time is fruit-times.

Words near fruit-time in the dictionary

  1. fruit-juice
  2. fruit-juices
  3. fruit-set
  4. fruit-shop
  5. fruit-shops
  6. fruit-time
  7. fruit-times
  8. fruit-tree
  9. fruit-trees
  10. fruit-trencher
  11. fruit-wood

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