fruited

Definition of fruitednext
past tense of fruit
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Verb
  • Trim after the plant has flowered to avoid removing the next season’s blooms.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 8 May 2026
  • Glass vases with metallic finishes of unnatural blue, green and gold are drowned in palm leaf motifs, ready to be flowered.
    Christopher Buchanan, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
Verb
  • Gilgeous-Alexander will lead the top-seeded and defending NBA champion Thunder against Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference Finals beginning Monday night in Oklahoma City.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • Mater Dei senior Gianna Kenrick, who is committed to Kentucky, is seeded first in the 11-dive girls meet.
    Dan Albano, Oc Register, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • Mowing is usually done in mid-summer after the clover has bloomed and dropped seeds, and again before the first frost in fall.
    Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
  • The mushrooms bloomed among a thick layer of something fuzzy and white and decidedly … gross.
    Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
Verb
  • By the time a human intervenes, the narrative has already propagated, indexed by search engines, embedded in datasets, and echoed across platforms.
    Wyles Daniel May 19, Miami Herald, 19 May 2026
  • That means the tree is protected by a federal plant patent and can't be propagated at home.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 19 May 2026
Verb
  • Taty Castellanos stood still as if rooted to the turf, looking high into the away end.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 18 May 2026
  • Of the 26 acres of Chardonnay, nine are own rooted as opposed to grafted, which Large points out is unusual in the region.
    Mike DeSimone, Robb Report, 17 May 2026
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“Fruited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fruited. Accessed 23 May. 2026.

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