in fruit

English

A cherry tree in fruit (fructed).

Phrase

in fruit

1. Bearing fruit; (heraldry) fructed, fruited (bearing fruit or acorns).

   Coordinate term: fruitagée

   • 1858, Chamber's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, page 8:

     The scabbard is adorned with filigree-work of silver, representing boughs and leaves of oak with acorns; the device of Pope Julius being an oak-tree in fruit.

   • 1876, Belgravia, page 144:

     An oak-tree in fruit was the armorial bearing of this Pontiff, who gifted the sword to James IV. It was wrought in Italy shortly after the revival of the arts, and is undoubtedly a beautiful piece of workmanship.

   • 1928, New England Historic Genealogical Society. Committee on Heraldry, A Roll of Arms:

     513. Pyne, Thomas; of London, England; of New York City by 1828. Baptized 1773; died 1851. Arms : Gules a chevron ermine between three pine cones gold. Crest : A pine tree in fruit proper. Motto : In Tempestate Floresco.

   • 1937, Rhode Island Historical Society, Rhode Island Historical Society Collections:

     Arms : Azure a fess between three dolphins silver on the fess an annulet (gules) for difference. Wreath : Silver, azure. Crest : In a nest vert under a lemon-tree in fruit proper a pelican feeding her young gold the blood gules .

   • 2009 June 1, John Matthews, Matthews, Complete American Armoury and Blue Book, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 20:

     Crest — On a mount an apple tree in fruit ppr.

See also

• in bloom