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fruit-bearing

noun

Etymology

From Middle English *fruit-berende, *fruit-berand (found in compounds: olife froite berand, oliue fruitberand), equivalent to fruit + bearing. Compare Old English wæstmbǣre (literally “fruit-bearing”).

  1. inherited from *fruit-berende✻

Definitions

  1. The act or process of bearing or producing fruit.

  2. Bearing fruit.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA