English edit

Etymology edit

From fruit +‎ -ed.

Verb edit

fruited

  1. simple past and past participle of fruit

Adjective edit

fruited (comparative more fruited, superlative most fruited)

  1. Containing fruit; bearing fruit.
    • 1895, Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful (song):
      O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
    • 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 213:
      Jim, importuned, had come with his axe and at her wish had felled it with the fruited but unripe mistletoe.
    • 2004, Tricia Laning, New Cook Book, →ISBN, page 89:
      Sea Bass With Fruited Tomatillo Salsa
    • 2011, Chittaranjan Kole, Wild Crop Relatives: Genomic and Breeding Resources: Temperate Fruits., →ISBN, page 147:
      Kikuchi (1946) classified Pyrus species into three groups, small fruited species with two carpels, large fruited species with five carpels, and their hybrids with 3-4 carpels.
    1. (heraldry) Bearing fruit or acorns, typically of a specified tincture.
      • 1813, John Lyon, The History of the Town and Port of Dover and of Dover Castle: With a Short Account of the Cinque Ports, page 138:
        [] the first gules, a chevron or, between three heads erased; the second vert, an oak tree, fruited or []
      • 1846, William Newton, Display of Heraldry, page 139:
        [] ; Or, an olive tree eradicated proper, by the name of Montolivet; Or, on a mound a pear tree fruited proper, by the name of Pyrton; Sable, an apple tree or, fruited gules, by the name of Verse, in Flanders.
      • 1870, Mrs. Bury Palliser, Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, page 270:
        A white horse holding in his mouth a sprig of oak. 2. The same galloping before an oak-tree fruited or (Fig. 178).
      • 1892, John Woodward, George Burnett, A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries, page 317:
        Azure , on a mount an apple tree fruited proper, are the armes parlantes of the Dutch APPELBOOMS, and of the Barons APFALTRER.
      • 1910, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquities, page 163:
        Gold a pear tree fruited gules