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Look up fruiting body in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A fruiting body is the multicellular structure of an organism on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are born.
Fruiting body may also refer to:
- Fruiting body (bacteria), the aggregation of myxobacterial cells when nutrients are scarce
- Fruiting body (slime mold), the sorophore and sorus