fruited

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adjective

Containing fruit; bearing fruit.

UncommonScrabble 11

Meanings

adjectivefruited (comparative more fruited, superlative most fruited)

comparative more fruited · superlative most fruited

  1. Containing fruit; bearing fruit.

    Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa

    2004, Tricia Laning, New Cook Book, →ISBN, page 89
    3 more examples

    O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!

    1895, Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (song)

    Jim, importuned, had come with his axe and at her wish had felled it with the fruited but unripe mistletoe.

    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

    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.

    2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits., →ISBN, page 147
    1. governmentBearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.

      Gold a pear tree fruited gules

      1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163
      4 more examples

      […] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or[…]

      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

      […]; 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.

      1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 139

      A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).

      1870, Mrs. Bury Palliser, Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, page 270

      Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.

      1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 317
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of fruit

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrewHg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰruHgyéti
  3. Proto-Italic*frūgjōr
  4. Proto-Italic*frūjōr
  5. Latinfruor
  6. Latinfrūctus
  7. Old Frenchfruit
  8. Middle Englishfruyt
  9. Englishfruit
  10. Englishfruited

From fruit + -ed.

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