fruit-wood

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fruit-wood (countable and uncountable, plural fruit-woods)

  1. Alternative spelling of fruitwood
    • Queensland agricultural journal Volume 5[1], Government Printer, Australia, 1899, pages 429–:Orchard Notes for October ... Attend to the disbudding of all young trees, for, if superfluous growths are checked now, they are converted into fruit-wood, and the vigour of the tree is thrown into those shoots which are to form the future branches of the tree...
    • Herbert John Webber, Leon Dexter Batchelor (1965) The Citrus Industry[2], University of California Press, GGKEY:NJ9T7DK5XJL, pages 16–:On the much-debated question whether to use only the so-called "fruit-wood" twigs in propagation, or whether "sucker" wood can also be used satisfactorily, the evidence is fragmentary, and at present definite conclusions cannot be stated.