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  • The monkey, under the impression that his was the fruitbearing part, planted it right under the tree on which he and his large family spent most of their time.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • It grew fast, reaching the fruitbearing stage in a few weeks.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • Each plot must contain at least one of each of the following crop categories: leafy, legume, tuberous and fruitbearing vegetables.

    Chapter 6 1993

  • Pruning, bending or pegging of mature coffee stems during harvesting are practiced to promote the development of secondary stems and increase fruitbearing capacity.

    Chapter 10 1992

  • Just as in that verse the sprout was prophesied of as growing up to be fruitbearing, so here the lowly sucker shoots to a height which makes it conspicuous from afar, and becomes, like some tall mast, a sign for the nations.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Bede: This fruitbearing of the fig tree may also be understood to mean the state of the synagogue, which was condemned to everlasting barrenness, because when the Lord came, it had no fruits of righteousness in those who were then unfaithful.

    Catena Aurea - Gospel of Mark 1225?-1274 1842

  • Medals are granted the player as he or she succeeds at various assigned tasks concerning a species (growing desirable fruitbearing plants for them, mating two members of the same species, getting two antagonistic species to get along, etc.), but these medals lack the whimsy that

    PopMatters 2009

  • Medals are granted the player as he or she succeeds at various assigned tasks concerning a species (growing desirable fruitbearing plants for them, mating two members of the same species, getting two antagonistic species to get along, etc.), but these medals lack the whimsy that

    PopMatters 2009

  • The slopes of the hills were graduated from summit to base after the manner of the successive tiers, ever abridging their circle, that we see in our theatres; and as many as fronted the southern rays were all planted so close with vines, olives, almond-trees, cherry-trees, fig-trees and other fruitbearing trees not a few, that there was not a hand's-breadth of vacant space.

    The Decameron, Volume II Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

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