fruit-growing

fruit-growing (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of fruitgrowing

   a fruit-growing district

   • 1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:

     The north-east corner of Essex is mostly fertile, fruit-growing land, dotted with small villages whose fine houses and lofty churches prove them to have been busy centres of the cloth industry in past centuries.