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fruiting

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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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For the first time, Ooi didn't see fruit bats, a main pollinator, at his orchard during this year's flowering season.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
For better blooms, give them sun, compost-rich soil, steady water, and prune only after flowering.

— Lauren Landers, The Spruce, 4 Aug. 2026

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Mai is propagating more than 170 varieties collected from refugees around the world, helping preserve these precious grains while studying which are best suited to our changing climate.

— Laura Mclively, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026
Sensory neurons carry information as traveling waves of electrical charge called action potentials — brief, self-propagating voltage spikes that move down the length of a nerve fiber.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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