Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process, time, or condition of bearing fruit.
- noun A yield of fruit.
- noun A result or an effect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fruits collectively; fruitery.
- noun The bearing or production of fruit or result.
- noun A painted or sculptured representation of fruit; a fruit-piece.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.
- noun Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Fruit , collectively. - noun Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the yield of fruit
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Examples
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"fruitage," and lo! he himself has so ripened and mellowed in that same
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But as it aged the fruitage thinned and hoping to replace it, you soaked handfuls of seeds.
Winter’s Tale 2009
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But as it aged the fruitage thinned and hoping to replace it, you soaked handfuls of seeds.
Winter’s Tale 2009
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But as it aged the fruitage thinned and hoping to replace it, you soaked handfuls of seeds.
Winter’s Tale 2009
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These agricultural tidbits went largely unnoticed by me until a trip to Boston in the dead of winter a few years back, after I had already moved out West, when I realized that it was only in LA that grocery stores offered almost entirely local produce; even the Beantown Whole Foods I visited featured -- you guessed it -- California's finest fruitage.
Jennifer Grayson: Eco Etiquette: How To Eat Local This Winter 2009
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Olympus 'foot, is said, so have I heard, to be a very granary of wealth and teeming fruitage; next to the sacred soil of Theseus, I could wish to reach that land.
The Trojan Women 2008
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Olympus 'foot, is said, so have I heard, to be a very granary of wealth and teeming fruitage; next to the sacred soil of Theseus, I could wish to reach that land.
The Trojan Women 2008
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A blessing is in the storm, and there will be the rich fruitage in the “afterward.”
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The worm has gnawed us in every crevice; we have never twined us like wreaths round fruitage.
Peer Gynt 2008
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The worm has gnawed us in every crevice; we have never twined us like wreaths round fruitage.
Peer Gynt 2008
cathari commented on the word fruitage
Spotted in a real magazine article: "The fruitage of the spirit". I wonder whether these free religious magazines hire actual journalists or the articles are just written by J. Random Minister...
November 5, 2007
reesetee commented on the word fruitage
Hmm. I always thought of the spirit more as a vegetative thing. ;->
November 5, 2007