Meaning of fruit-wood | Babel Free

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Alternative spelling of fruitwood.

alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

Examples

“Queensland agricultural journal Volume 5, Government Printer, Australia, 1899, pages 429–: “Orchard Notes for October ... Attend⟳ to the disbudding of all young trees, for, if superfluous growths are checked now, they are converted into fruit-wood, and the vigour of the tree is thrown into those shoots which are to form⟳ the future branches of the tree...””

“Herbert John Webber; Leon Dexter Batchelor (1965), The Citrus Industry, University of California Press⟳, GGKEY:NJ9T7DK5XJL, pages 16–: “On the much-debated question⟳ whether to use⟳ only the so-called "fruit-wood" twigs in propagation, or whether "sucker" wood can also be used satisfactorily, the evidence is fragmentary, and at present⟳ definite conclusions cannot be stated.””

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