fructed

[fruhk-tid, frook-, frook-]

adjective

Heraldry.

1. (of a tree or other plant) represented as bearing fruit, seeds, or the like.

   an apple tree vert fructed gules.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fructed¹

1600–10; < Latin frūct ( us ) ( fructi- ) + -ed ³

Example Sentences

Previously to this event the family arms had been the punning device of ‘Sable, on a bend voided argent, three walnut leaves or,’ and the crest, ‘A walnut tree fructed proper.’

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At the fountain head reclines Euphemia, my wife, arrayed and fructed proper, who leisurely drops the crockery into the stream.

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Borne as the crest of Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton, which is thus blazoned—Out of a ducal crest-coronet or, an oak-tree fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw ppr., the frame gold; above the crest the motto, “Through!”

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"A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or."

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