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fruited

fruited

3.6
Has fruit growing on it, like a tree with ripe apples
  • adjective
  • /ˈfruːtɪd/
translation icon : frutal
  • Farmers prefer to cultivate fruited species that thrive in this climate and offer delicious produce.
  • fruited varieties
  • small-fruited

Examples

  • This garden features fruited plants that not only look beautiful but also yield an abundance of berries.

  • That new growth then fruited, fruited, fruited, fruited and fruited.

  • The orchard is known for its many fruited trees that produce a variety of apples each autumn.

Synonyms

fruitful
vsfruited
43 3.9

Producing good, useful results

is specifically about plants that produce actual fruit rather than general productivity
fruiting
vsfruited
3.7

Able to produce apples or berries on a tree

is about already bearing fruit rather than being likely to produce it

Antonyms

57 4.6

Land where plants and animals cannot grow

19 5.2

Not able to have babies or other young

Compounds

A plant that has blue fruit

dark-fruited
  • Specialized
6.9

Having dark fruit like grapes or berries

A plant that has red fruit

round-fruited
  • Specialized
4.3

A plant or tree that grows round fruit like berries

oval-fruited
  • Specialized
7.9

A plant that has oval fruit

plum-fruited yew
  • Specialized
9.9

An evergreen South American tree or shrub that makes small plum-like fruit

A plant that produces small fruit

How Fruitful

everbearing
  • Specialized
5.3
prolific
7 6.0
fruited
3.6
fruitless
24 4.8

Surface Forms

fruited positive

Morphology

fruited = fruit (transparent) = fruit + ed

Standard adjective/participle formation from 'fruit' indicating 'bearing or having fruit', which learners can readily infer.

Etymology

Fruited comes from the same root as fruit, and it means 'having fruit' or 'producing fruit'. So a fruited tree or plant 'has fruit', which is why we use the word for plants that bear fruit.