fruitage

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the fruit produced by a plant, or the amount of fruit it yields

   Gardeners prized the old pear tree for its abundant fruitage.

2. 2
   noun

   the state, process, or season of bearing fruit

   Warm spring weather encouraged the early fruitage of the vines.

3. 3
   noun

   literary: the product or result of an action, process, or period of development

   The reform was the fruitage of decades of patient organizing.

Formed from fruit + -age, influenced by French fruitage. Its literal senses concern fruit collectively and fruit-bearing; the figurative sense extends a harvest to the result produced by any sustained action or development.

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