Definition of "fruitage" [fruit•age]

• The process, time, or condition of bearing fruit. (noun)
• A yield of fruit. (noun)
• A result or an effect. (noun)

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• ""fruitage," and lo! he himself has so ripened and mellowed in that same"
• "But as it aged the fruitage thinned and hoping to replace it, you soaked handfuls of seeds."
• "These agricultural tidbits went largely unnoticed by me until a trip to Boston in the dead of winter a few years back, after I had already moved out West, when I realized that it was only in LA that grocery stores offered almost entirely local produce; even the Beantown Whole Foods I visited featured -- you guessed it -- California's finest fruitage."