Definition of "fruiting" []

• Present participle of fruit. (verb)

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• "The fungus lives on feces from grazing herbivores, like cattle, and during the evenings its spore-producing organs, called fruiting bodies, fill with fluids and become light-sensitive, bending its black spore-cap towards the early morning sun."
• "BTTR Ventures Co-Founder Nikhil Arora, Mr. Singh, and warehouse manager Osvaldo Casalongue looked through packages of mushrooms in the "fruiting" room, where the mushrooms grow to full size before they are harvested."
• "I do not know of a better conditioned list of prospects than the more than 150,000 _American Fruit Grower_ subscribers all over the continent, who are at least interested in some kind of fruiting trees or plants."