fruit-bearing

English

Alternative forms

• fruitbearing

Etymology

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”).

Noun

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

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

Adjective

fruit-bearing (not comparable)

1. (botany) Of a species of tree, a specific tree, a branch, etc., bearing fruit.

   Synonym: fructiferous

2. (figuratively, by extension) Productive, rewarding, or beneficial.

Translations

bearing fruit

• Armenian: մրգատու (hy) (mrgatu)
• Catalan: fruiter
• Finnish: hedelmää kantava
• French: fruitier (fr), fructifère (fr)
• Hungarian: gyümölcstermő (hu)
• Latin: pōmifer
• Polish: owocowy (pl), owoconośny
• Russian: плодоно́сный (ru) (plodonósnyj), плодонося́щий (ru) (plodonosjáščij)

References

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

Anagrams

• bearing fruit