FRUITING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fruiting mean? 

• FRUITING (adjective)
  The adjective FRUITING has 1 sense:

1. capable of bearing fruit

  Familiarity information: FRUITING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRUITING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of bearing fruit

Similar:

mature (having reached full natural growth or development)

 Context examples 

Not every species of fruiting tree is an attractive meal to all herbivores.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

During and after the fruiting stage, several insecticides such as endosulfan, cypermethrin, alpha-cypermethrin and lambda-cyhalothrin were also used.

(Lychee deaths linked to pesticides, not the fruit, SciDev.Net)

The chemical processes that influence biodiversity by stimulating the sprouting and blossoming of plants, fruiting and seed dispersal, are regulated partly by fires.

(Fire control harms biodiversity in Brazilian savannah, SciDev.Net)