/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 ]
/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 ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012