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fructed

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[fruhk-tid, frook-, frook-] / ˈfrʌk tɪd, ˈfrʊk-, ˈfruk- /

adjective

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

    an apple tree vert fructed gules.


Etymology

Origin of fructed

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

Example Sentences

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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.’

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony

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

From Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe by Harris, Thaddeus Mason

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

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, May 26, 1920 by Various