fruiting

A fruiting body.

Noun

  1. 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. 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...
    • These factors differ from mushroom to mushroom. Most of the changes that stimulate fruiting have a negative effect on the vegetative growth of the mycelium. - 2005, Bram van Nieuwenhuijzen, Small-scale mushroom...
  3. 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,...
    • In this way, the problems of fruiting, garbling and over-interrogation are overcome. - 2015, Phil Croucher, Air Navigation With The Jeppesen CR-3, pages 6–51:

Forms

fruitings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of fruit