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Etymology

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From befruit +‎ -ed.

Verb

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befruited

  1. simple past and past participle of befruit

Adjective

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befruited (comparative more befruited, superlative most befruited)

  1. Covered or adorned with fruit
    • 1892, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present:
      On the floor was a tawdry carpet, all beflowered and befruited,—such a meretricious blur of colors as a hotel offers for vulgar feet to tread upon.