fruit-wood

fruit-wood (countable and uncountable, plural fruit-woods)

1. Alternative spelling of fruitwood
   • 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...”
   • The Citrus Industry‎, University of California Press, 1965, 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.”