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fruit⋅age

  [froo-tij]
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–noun
1. the bearing of fruit: soil additives to hasten the fruitage.
2. fruits collectively.
3. product or result: This year's fruitage was of better quality.
Origin:
1570–80; < MF fruit(er) to bear fruit + -age -age
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fruit·age   (frōō'tĭj)   
n.  
    1. The process, time, or condition of bearing fruit.
    2. A yield of fruit.
  2. A result or an effect.
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Fruitage

Fruit"age\, n. [F. fruitage.]

1. Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery.

The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. --Milton.

2. Product or result of any action; effect, good or ill.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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