The collection of fruits produced by a plant or tree; the aggregate of fruits yielded by cultivation.
From 'fruit' + '-age' (a suffix creating abstract nouns), likely influenced by French 'fruitage.' The suffix '-age' appears in words like 'baggage' and 'passage,' creating nouns from verbs or other parts of speech.
The word 'fruitage' was once commonly used in agriculture to describe the total fruit harvest, but modern English speakers prefer simpler terms like 'yield' or 'harvest,' showing how language gradually discards old words.
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