"fruiter" meaning in English

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          "text": "Hypholoma mushrooms are very prolific fruiters.",
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        "Any organism that fruits."
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        "A ship for transporting fruit."
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        "(historical) A ship for transporting fruit."
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          "ref": "2006, William Lipsky, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, page 48",
          "text": "Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the \"fruiters\" in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]",
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          "text": "They already had some gay friends, though I can't say I liked them very much. My Dad just took it in stride. It'd didn't make any difference between us. My Mom, after about fifteen minutes of silence, said, 'Oh, good, a fruiter—a funny boy. My sister has one.",
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          "ref": "2021, Nick Kent, The Unstable Boys",
          "text": "'Maybe he's a fruiter,' remarked Tracey in her infuriating accent.\n'Now that would be a turn-up for the books, wouldn't it Mike? I have to say I've never warmed to the homosexual community. I'm not what you'd call a bender-befriender. Still, live and let live, I say.'",
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        "A homosexual man."
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        "(slang, derogatory) A homosexual man."
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        "Any organism that fruits."
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        },
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          "text": "They already had some gay friends, though I can't say I liked them very much. My Dad just took it in stride. It'd didn't make any difference between us. My Mom, after about fifteen minutes of silence, said, 'Oh, good, a fruiter—a funny boy. My sister has one.",
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