fruitling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fruit +‎ -ling.

Noun[edit]

fruitling (plural fruitlings)

  1. A small or immature fruit.
    • 2012, Homer, The Iliad - Page 102:
      Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear.
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