fruited

English

Etymology

From fruit +‎ -ed.

Verb

fruited

  1. simple past tense and past participle of fruit

Adjective

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, Sally Krimmer; Alan Lawson, editors, 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.
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