fruiting

English

Verb

fruiting

1. present participle and gerund of fruit

Noun

fruiting (countable and uncountable, plural fruitings)

1. (countable) A fruiting body.
   • 2009, Wilhelm Foissner, D. L. Hawksworth, Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution, page 60:

     Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.

2. (uncountable) The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.
   • 1940, Homer Charles McNamara, Dalton Ray Hooton, Dow Dewey Porter, Differential growth rates in cotton varieties and their Response to Seasonal Conditions at Greenville, Texas, page 25:

     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.

   • 2005, Bram van Nieuwenhuijzen, Small-scale mushroom cultivation, →ISBN, page 12:

     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.

3. (uncountable, aviation) The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time).
   • 1978, United States. Office of Aviation Medicine, Aviation Medical Reports, page 244:

     How many breakdowns or serious impairments of function (quality of return, fruiting, degradation, etc.) did your radar and communications equipment have today?

   • 2015, Phil Croucher, Air Navigation With The Jeppesen CR-3, pages 6–51:

     In this way, the problems of fruiting, garbling and over-interrogation are overcome.