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Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.

The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown.

To bear fruit. "Causeth the earth to fructify." Beveridge.

Fruit sugar; levulose. [R.]

Produce; fruit, [R.]

Fruitful; productive; profitable. [Obs.] Nothing fructuous or profitable. Chaucer. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Fruc"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.]

Use; fruition; enjoyment. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Producing fruit; fruitful; fructiferous. Dr. H. More.

The fruit bate; a group of the Cheiroptera, comprising the bats which live on fruits. See Eruit bat, under Fruit.

Feeding on fruit, as birds and other animals. Pennant.

A picture of fruit; decoration by representation of fruit. The cornices consist of frutages and festoons. Evelyn.

A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables.

ng smell of garlic. -- Garlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

oft; a garden; as, a cloister garth. A clapper clapping in a garth To scare the fowl from fruit. Tennyson.

le berries. It includes the American winter-green (Gaultheria procumbens), and the larger-fruited salal of Northwestern America (Gaultheria Shallon).

A species of cherry tree common in Europe (Prunus avium); also, the fruit, which is usually small and dark in color.

The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceæ. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.

Chaucer. Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom Palm. -- Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.

Coated with icing; iced; glazed; -- said of fruits, sweetmeats, cake, etc.

The acorn or mast of the oak and similar fruits. Gray.