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fruiting

verb

present participle of fruit

as in flowering

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Recent Examples of fruiting Pruning helps the plant focus its energy on fruiting for better fruit quality, manages plant size, and provides better air flow around the plant. — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 31 May 2026 But Heusinkvelt recommends keeping fruiting crabapple trees further in the center of your lawn and away from driveways and sidewalks, where the fruit can be trampled and tracked around by shoes and tires. — Cori Sears, The Spruce, 14 May 2026 Fall-fruiting raspberries fruit on canes that grew in the current season (primocanes), whereas summer-bearing raspberries only develop fruit on second-year canes (floricanes). — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026

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On the other hand, mums with tightly closed blooms may take weeks to reach their flowering peak, which will give you the biggest bang for your buck.

— Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Sep. 2026
Despite its name, only the flowering tuft of red oat grass is actually red.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

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Its unfurling will reveal an image of the cosmos overlain with blooming flowers and splintered prisms emanating rainbows.

— Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Rockliffe’s new fine-dining restaurant Atlas is supplied by an extensive on-site garden blooming with faraway citrus varieties, fields of microgreens, and mushrooms.

— Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2026

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Use this step-by-step guide to try your hand at propagating your favorite begonias.

— Derek Carwood, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Sep. 2026
Rather than propagating vertically toward the electrodes, the dendrites spread horizontally inside the electrolyte.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of propagating

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