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fruticose

[froo-ti-kohs]

adjective

having the form of a shrub; shrublike.

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

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

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frutescent or fruticose (fruːˈtɛs^ənt, ˈfruːtɪˌkəʊs, -ˌkəʊz)

—*adj*
	having the appearance or habit of a shrub; shrubby

[C18: from Latin frutex shrub, bush]

fruticose or fruticose

—*adj*

[C18: from Latin frutex shrub, bush]

fru'tescence or fruticose

—n

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