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fruit-tree

fruit-tree is the dated form of fruit tree.

Meaning of fruit tree

Noun

fruit tree (plural fruit trees)

  1. A tree that bears a crop of edible fruit on a regular basis.
    • The countryside of eastern Bohemia is cultivated intensely. Fruit trees grow thickly alongside the roads instead of the hawthorn hedges common in England.1947 January and February, Gerald Druce (Jun.), “A Journey on the "Slovak Arrow"”, in Railway Magazine, page 17

Forms of fruit-tree

pluralfruit-trees

Questions about fruit-tree

What is fruit-tree the dated form of?
Fruit-tree is the dated form of fruit tree.

Words near fruit-tree in the dictionary

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

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