fruit-bearing

• fruitbearing

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”).

fruit-bearing (countable and uncountable, plural fruit-bearings)

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

fruit-bearing (not comparable)

1. (of a species of tree, a specific tree, a branch, etc.) Bearing fruit.

• “fruit-bearing”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• bearing fruit