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

When represented as "fructed," the fruit is usually drawn out of all proportion to its relative size.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Argent, a pale per pale or, and gules: between two limbs of an oak fructed proper.

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