Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, bearing fruit; shown as covered with fruit: said of a tree or other plant, and used only when the fruit is of a different tincture from the rest: as, an oak-tree proper fructed or (that is, having the foliage green and the acorns gold).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Bearing fruit; -- said of a tree or plant so represented upon an escutcheon.
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- adjective heraldry Bearing
fruit .
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Examples
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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!”
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Trees of mature growth are “_accrued_”; when with leaves, “_in foliage_” (but these two terms are so seldom used that they may be entirely disregarded); with fruit or seeds, “_fructed_” or “_seeded_”; if without leaves, “_blasted_”; and if their roots are exposed, “_eradicated_.”
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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“A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or.”
Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838
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Or, an oak fructed proper, having a frame saw transversely fixed in the body of it, of the first.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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On a wreath, Or and Gules, a boar passant, Argent, about the neck a chaplet of oak leaves, Vert, fructed proper.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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On the sinister, a wolf erminois, each supporter gorged with a garland or chaplet of oak, Vert, fructed, Or. Motto.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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The vinebranch of Heremonheber on Bregia’s plane where Teffia lies is leaved invert and fructed proper but the cublic hatches endnot open yet for hourly rincers’ mess.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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1522 -- _Az., a lion rampt. queue fourchée erm., crowned or_ -- is encircled by _peach-branches fructed and in foliage, each peach being charged with the letter É_, No. 297; the crest-wreath also is formed of a similar peach-branch.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
reesetee commented on the word fructed
In heraldry: of a tree or other plant, represented as bearing fruit, seeds, or the like.
August 28, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word fructed
You know that game Fructus?
I suck at it.
August 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fructed
Better than that bee one with the honeycombs. I really sucked at that.
August 29, 2008
plethora commented on the word fructed
I thought Fructus was a shampoo.
August 29, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fructed
It is. Chained_bear doesn't like shampoo games.
August 29, 2008
bilby commented on the word fructed
*shoves chained_bear into the shower and locks the door*
August 30, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word fructed
No problem, bilby. It will make my heretofore sticky-with-cupcake-icing fur all smooth and manageable. Nyah. ;)
August 30, 2008