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frutescent

[ froo-tes-uhnt ]

adjective

, Botany.
  1. tending to be shrublike; shrubby.


frutescent

/ fruːˈtɛsənt; ˈfruːtɪˌkəʊs; -ˌkəʊz /

adjective

  1. having the appearance or habit of a shrub; shrubby
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Derived Forms

  • fruˈtescence, noun
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Other Words From

  • fru·tescence noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frutescent1

1700–10; < Latin frut ( ex ) shrub, bush + -escent
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Word History and Origins

Origin of frutescent1

C18: from Latin frutex shrub, bush
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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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