fruited en · ADJ
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewHg- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *bʰruHgyéti Proto-Italic *frūgjōr Proto-Italic *frūjōr Latin fruor Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin frūctus Old French fruitbor. Middle English fruyt English fruit English -ed English fruited From fruit + -ed.
Meanings
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Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
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: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):Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa
2004, Tricia Laning, New Cook Book, →ISBN, page 89:
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Containing fruit; bearing fruit. ▸ Bearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.
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:[…] 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: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:Gold a pear tree fruited gules
1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163:[…]; 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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more fruited | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most fruited | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |