[f. FRUIT sb. + -LING.] A small fruit; in material and immaterial sense.

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1876.  J. Ellis, Caesar in Egypt, Alpha—Omega, 246–7.

        Oh, for learning! he ponders, full-puffed with the pride of the pedant;
To-day’s blush but faintly atoning for yesterday’s rashness,—
Time lost! in acquiring some fruitlings of error.

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1891.  Chamb. Jrnl., Feb., 107/2. A mango tree with two small green fruitlings on it.

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