to fruit
- verb
- /frut/
- But this one will also stay smaller and produce fruit throughout the whole season.
- fruiting trees
Some trees fruit once a year, some trees every two years, some trees you go, I don't know, few months.
- Some trees fruit once a year, some trees every two years, some trees you go, I don't know, few months.
Examples
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We see our first fruiting Superplatano plants at Modesto Canabal's farm near Yauco in the southwestern region of the island.
Academic text (1995) -
Strawberries take less time to breed, since they grow and fruit more quickly than blackberries, while blueberries usually take a lot longer.
Academic text (2003) -
Trees are starting to fruit, some are blossoming
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But, in their fourth year, only three of them are fruiting.
Academic text (1994) -
I also have a few peach, pear, cherry trees, and apple trees from which I can fruit each year.
Blog text (4) -
Figs are a lifeline in the forest, often fruiting when there is nothing else to eat.
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The ecologist needs to be in Africa when the zebras are mating, the plant biologist in South America when the trees are fruiting, or the anthropologist in Sri Lanka long enough to win the confidence of the local population.
Academic text (1990) -
The apple tree will fruit abundantly if it receives enough sunlight.
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During warm summers, many plants fruit earlier than usual.
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Once the flowers bloom, the vine will fruit by late summer.
Synonyms
To begin producing fruit or seeds after flowering
To produce fruit on a tree or plant
Able to produce apples or berries on a tree
Idioms
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
A small tropical fruit with a hard skin and sweet, slightly sour pulp used in drinks and desserts
- Jargon
A rule that stops courts from using evidence found illegally
An oval brown fruit with fuzzy skin, green inside, and a slightly sour taste, often eaten raw or in desserts
- US
A large sweet citrus fruit that is a mix of tangerine and grapefruit with thick, wrinkled skin
- Specialized
A fruit whose flesh comes from flower parts, like an apple or strawberry
- Specialized
A fruit made of many small fruits that form from one flower, like blackberries
A long tropical fruit with soft sweet inside that people eat or make into juice
- Specialized
A fruit like an apple or pear whose edible part comes from other flower parts
- Specialized
A winged fruit from maple or ash trees with one seed that spins as it falls
- Specialized
A food that forms when many flowers grow together, like a pineapple or mulberry
- Australian
A bat that eats fruit and has tube-shaped nostrils that point away from each other
- Specialized
A fruit that grows from one part of a flower with seeds inside, like a grape
How Fruitful
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb fruit comes from the root fructus meaning 'produce', and it simply means 'to make or bear fruit'. So when a tree or plant 'fruits' it is producing its natural product.