fructed

English

An oak tree fructed.

Etymology

Latin fructus (“fruit”).

Adjective

fructed (not comparable)

1. (heraldry, of a tree or plant) Bearing fruit or acorns.

   Synonyms: in fruit, fruited

   Coordinate term: fruitagée

   • 1660, John Guillim, Francis Nower, A Display of Heraldie, page 131:

     He beareth, Argent, on a Mount in a Base, a Pine Apple tree, fructed, Proper, by the name of Pine.

   • 1851, John Peter Elven, The book of family crests, page 229:

     HASKELL, on a mount, an apple-tree fructed, ppr. pl. 94, n. 33.

   • 1870-1881, John Edwin Cussans, History of Hertfordshire

     A dexter Cubit arm, couped, vested sable, cuffed or, charged with a Cross paté of the last, holding in the hand an Oak branch fructed all proper

References

“fructed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• crufted