fruiting

plural fruitings

1. countableA fruiting body.

   Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.

   2009, Wilhelm Foissner, D. L. Hawksworth, Protist Diversity and Geographical Distribution, page 60

2. uncountableThe act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.

   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.

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

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   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.

   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

3. uncountableaeronauticsThe occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time).

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

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

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

   1978, United States. Office of Aviation Medicine, Aviation Medical Reports, page 244

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of fruit