fructed

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"A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or II DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE BIRTH-DAY OF OGLETHORPE There are great difficulties in ascertaining the age of Oglethorpe.

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  1. 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). Whether the statement as to Worcestershire bowmen bearing as their badge at Agincourt a pear tree fructed rests upon good authority. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 105.

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  • "A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or II DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE BIRTH-DAY OF OGLETHORPE There are great difficulties in ascertaining the age of Oglethorpe. —  Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • “A boar's head, as before, holding an oaken branch, vert, fructed or II DISCUSSION RESPECTING THE BIRTH-DAY OF OGLETHORPE. —  Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe
 

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