fruitage

English

Etymology

fruit +‎ -age

Noun

fruitage (countable and uncountable, plural fruitages)

  1. Fruit, collectively.
    • 1815, Lydia Sigourney, Moral Pieces in Prose and Verse, The Giving of the Bible to the Esquimaux, page 10:
      For them no spring, with gentle care,
      Paints the young bud and scents the air;
      Nor autumn bids the loaded stem
      Scatter its fruitage fair for them.
  2. Product or result of any action, effect, good, or ill.

References
  • fruitage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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