fruticose

[ froo-ti-kohs ]

adjective
  1. having the form of a shrub; shrublike.

  2. Botany, Mycology. having branched stalks, as certain lichens.: Compare crustose, foliose.

Origin of fruticose

1
1660–70; <Latin fruticōsus full of shrubs, bushy, equivalent to frutic- (stem of frutex) shrub + -ōsus-ose1

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