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fruticose

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fru⋅ti⋅cose

  [froo-ti-kohs]
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–adjective
1. having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
2. Botany, Mycology. having branched stalks, as certain lichens. Compare crustose, foliose.
Origin:
1660–70; < L fruticōsus full of shrubs, bushy, equiv. to frutic- (s. of frutex) shrub + -ōsus -ose 1
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fru·ti·cose   (frōō'tĭ-kōs')   
adj.  Resembling a shrub, especially in having woody stems and branches.

[Latin fruticōsus, from frutex, frutic-, shrub, bush.]
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