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.’

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

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!”

From Project Gutenberg

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

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