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frutescent
[ froo-tes-uhnt ]
adjective
- tending to be shrublike; shrubby.
frutescent
/ fruːˈtɛsənt; ˈfruːtɪˌkəʊs; -ˌkəʊz /
adjective
- having the appearance or habit of a shrub; shrubby
Derived Forms
- fruˈtescence, noun
Other Words From
- fru·tescence noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of frutescent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of frutescent1
Example Sentences
Frutescent, frōō-tes′ent, adj. becoming shrubby; Fru′tex, a shrub.—adjs.
Nicotiana Fruticosa, or shrubby tobacco: leaves lanceolate, subpetioled, embracing; flowers acute, stem frutescent.
Suffruticose or Frutescent, when low stems are decidedly woody below, but herbaceous above.
I have said 'lastly'—of the orange, for fear of the reader's weariness only; not as having yet represented, far less exhausted, the variety of frutescent form.
The strawberry is a hip turned inside-out, the frutescent receptacle changed into a scarlet ball, or cone, of crystalline and delicious coral, in the outside of which the separate seeds, husk and all, are imbedded.
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