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Of a species of tree, a specific tree, a branch, etc., bearing fruit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fructiferous
Antonyms: none provided
Productive, rewarding, or beneficial.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, figuratively, not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The act or process of bearing or producing fruit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
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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”).
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
մրգատու
(mrgatu)
— bearing fruit
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Catalan:
fruiter
— bearing fruit
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Catalan:
fructífer
— bearing fruit
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Finnish:
hedelmää kantava
— bearing fruit
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French:
fruitier
— bearing fruit
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French:
fructifère
— bearing fruit
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Hungarian:
gyümölcstermő
— bearing fruit
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Latin:
pōmifer
— bearing fruit
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Polish:
owocowy
— bearing fruit
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Polish:
owoconośny
— bearing fruit
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Russian:
плодоно́сный
(plodonósnyj)
— bearing fruit
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Russian:
плодонося́щий
(plodonosjáščij)
— bearing fruit
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Welsh:
ffrwyth-ddwyn
— bearing fruit