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fruitings

fruitings is the plural of fruiting.

Meaning of fruiting

Noun

fruiting (countable and uncountable, plural fruitings)

  1. (countable) A fruiting body.
    • Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.2009, Wilhelm Foissner, D. L. Hawksworth, Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution, page 60
  2. (uncountable) The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.
    • From these figures it will be seen that the fruiting period of cotton in the blacklands of Texas is relatively short, and a majority of the bolls are set early in the season.1940, Homer Charles McNamara, Dalton Ray Hooton, Dow Dewey Porter, Differential growth rates in cotton varieties and their Response to Seasonal Conditions at Greenville, Texas, page 25
  3. (uncountable) The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time).
    • How many breakdowns or serious impairments of function (quality of return, fruiting, degradation, etc.) did your radar and communications equipment have today?1978, United States. Office of Aviation Medicine, Aviation Medical Reports, page 244

Questions about fruitings

What is fruitings the plural of?
Fruitings is the plural of fruiting.

Words near fruitings in the dictionary

  1. fruitiness
  2. fruiting
  3. fruiting bodies
  4. fruiting body
  5. fruiting up
  6. fruitings
  7. fruitini
  8. fruitinis
  9. fruition
  10. fruitions
  11. fruitious

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