frutescent
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of frutescent
1700–10; < Latin frut ( ex ) shrub, bush + -escent
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The strawberry is a hip turned inside-out, the frutescent receptacle changed into a scarlet ball, or cone, of crystalline and delicious coral, in the outside of which the separate seeds, husk and all, are imbedded.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
Nicotiana Fruticosa, or shrubby tobacco: leaves lanceolate, subpetioled, embracing; flowers acute, stem frutescent.
From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Meller, Henry James
I have said 'lastly'—of the orange, for fear of the reader's weariness only; not as having yet represented, far less exhausted, the variety of frutescent form.
From Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by Ruskin, John
In addition to the usual plants a Lagerstræmia occurs, which attains the size of a middling tree, and a frutescent Hypericum, Aristolochia, and Hedyotis occur.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
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