fruitling

English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ -ling.

Noun

fruitling (plural fruitlings)

1. A small or immature fruit.
   • 2012, Homer, The Iliad - Page 102:

     Any man of common right feeling will love and cherish her who is his own, as I this woman, with my whole heart, though she was but a fruitling of my spear.