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fruit-times

fruit-times is the plural of fruit-time.

Meaning of fruit-time

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
  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

Questions about fruit-times

What is fruit-times the plural of?
Fruit-times is the plural of fruit-time.

Words near fruit-times in the dictionary

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

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