"fruiting" meaning in English

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          "text": "Fruitings can consist of several thousand individual sporocarps.",
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        "A fruiting body."
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        "(countable) A fruiting body."
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          "ref": "1940, Homer Charles McNamara, Dalton Ray Hooton, Dow Dewey Porter, Differential growth rates in cotton varieties and their Response to Seasonal Conditions at Greenville, Texas, page 25:",
          "text": "From these figures it will be seen that the fruiting period of cotton in the blacklands of Texas is relatively short, and a majority of the bolls are set early in the season.",
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          "ref": "2005, Bram van Nieuwenhuijzen, Small-scale mushroom cultivation, →ISBN, page 12:",
          "text": "These factors differ from mushroom to mushroom. Most of the changes that stimulate fruiting have a negative effect on the vegetative growth of the mycelium.",
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        "The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification."
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        "(uncountable) The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification."
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          "ref": "1978, United States. Office of Aviation Medicine, Aviation Medical Reports, page 244:",
          "text": "How many breakdowns or serious impairments of function (quality of return, fruiting, degradation, etc.) did your radar and communications equipment have today?",
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          "text": "In this way, the problems of fruiting, garbling and over-interrogation are overcome.",
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        "The occurrence of FRUIT (false replies unsynchronized/uncorrelated in time)."
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