fruitsets

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