fruit-wood

A form of fruitwood — The wood of any fruit tree, particularly hardwood from species such as pear and cherry, that is valued for furniture, woodcuts and other applications.

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Meanings

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

plural fruit-woods

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative spelling of fruitwood.
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    Queensland agricultural journal Volume 5, 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, 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.”

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fruit-wood,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruit-wood.

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