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English
Etymology
From fruit + -ed.
Verb
fruited
- simple past and past participle of fruit
Adjective
fruited (comparative more fruited, superlative most fruited)
- Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
1895, Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (song):O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 213:Jim, importuned, had come with his axe and at her wish had felled it with the fruited but unripe mistletoe.
2004, Tricia Laning, New Cook Book, →ISBN, page 89:Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa
2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits., →ISBN, page 147:Kikuchi (1946) classified Pyrus species into three groups, small fruited species with two carpels, large fruited species with five carpels, and their hybrids with 3-4 carpels.
- (heraldry) Bearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.
1813, John Lyon, The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle: With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports, page 138:[…] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or […]
1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 139:[…] ; Or, an olive tree eradicated proper, by the name of Montolivet; Or, on a mound a pear tree fruited proper, by the name of Pyrton; Sable, an apple tree or, fruited gules, by the name of Verse, in Flanders.
1870, Mrs. Bury Palliser, Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, page 270:A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).
1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 317:Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.
1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163:Gold a pear tree fruited gules