fruit tree

a tree bearing edible fruit.

Origin of fruit tree

First recorded in 1570–80

It is worth while to have an intellectual interest in a fruit-tree.

The Holy Earth |L. H. Bailey
Roses still riot in Winestead; the fruit-tree roots are as mossy as in the seventeenth century.

Andrew Marvell |Augustine Birrell
Mr. Knight states that seedling cherries are more variable than those of any other fruit-tree.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. |Charles Darwin
The purpose, the raison d'être, of woman is to be a mother, as the raison d'être of a fruit-tree is to bear fruit.

Her Royal Highness Woman |Max O'Rell

A man had a fruit-tree in his garden, and he told a friend of his that he got three kinds of fruit from it.

Dave Porter and His Double |Edward Stratemeyer

fruit tree

any tree that bears edible fruit