FRUTICOSE


Meaning of FRUTICOSE in English

/frooh"ti kohs'/ , adj.

1. having the form of a shrub; shrublike.

2. having branched stalks, as certain lichens. Cf. crustose, foliose .

[ 1660-70; fruticosus full of shrubs, bushy, equiv. to frutic- (s. of frutex ) shrub + -osus -OSE 1 ]

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