[f. FRUIT v. + -ING2.] Bearing fruit.
1778. Cowper, Lett., 3 Dec. He has presented me with six fruiting pines.
1870. Hooker, Stud. Flora, 178. Galium uliginosum … fruiting pedicels erect.
1872. Oliver, Elem. Bot., II. 289. The fertile or fruiting stem [of Horsetail] is unbranched, 6 to 10 inches high, and withers in spring almost before the barren fronds appear.
1894. Flora A. Steel, Potter’s Thumb (1895), 161. A shingled hut, hung with flowering, fruiting gourds.
