fruiting

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of fruit

noun

1. (countable)A fruiting body.

   “Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.”

2. (uncountable)The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification.

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

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

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