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Recent Examples of fruiting
Look for fruiting fig varieties that are ideal for containers and can fruit year-round indoors.
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Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 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
Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fruiting
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Clones of Stumpy are flowering for the first time this spring.—
Tim Stelloh,
NBC news,
25 Mar. 2026
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If in the ground, tulips can survive outside in most USDA zones, but soil temperatures in pots never retain enough heat for spring flowering bulbs to survive frigid cold temperatures.—
Michelle Mastro,
Architectural Digest,
24 Mar. 2026
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The sun is shining, the flowers and trees are blooming, and people are getting outside to enjoy long walks.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The trees and the plants are blooming.—
Lauren Whitney,
CBS News,
27 Mar. 2026
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Humans seeding anthrax People can get caught in the life cycle of Bacillus anthracis.—
Hannah Kinzer,
The Conversation,
25 Mar. 2026
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As the three jostle for seeding in the Stanley Cup playoffs, these games between them take on an outsized importance.—
SportsDay Staff,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Mar. 2026
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That means that winemakers across what is now France must have switched from domesticating wild grapes to propagating them directly—that is, cloning grapevines by taking cuttings of the plants to start new groves.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
24 Mar. 2026
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Here are two simple methods for propagating ZZ plants.—
SJ McShane,
Martha Stewart,
10 Mar. 2026
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“Fruiting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruiting. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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