frutescent

American

[froo-tes-uhnt] / fruˈtɛs ənt /

adjective

Botany.

tending to be shrublike; shrubby.

frutescent British

/ fruːˈtɛsənt, ˈfruːtɪˌkəʊs, -ˌkəʊz /

adjective

having the appearance or habit of a shrub; shrubby

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Other Word Forms

frutescence noun

Etymology

Origin of frutescent

1700–10; < Latin frut ( ex ) shrub, bush + -escent

Example Sentences

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Frutescent, frōō-tes′ent, adj. becoming shrubby; Fru′tex, a shrub.—adjs.

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Nicotiana Fruticosa, or shrubby tobacco: leaves lanceolate, subpetioled, embracing; flowers acute, stem frutescent.

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Suffruticose or Frutescent, when low stems are decidedly woody below, but herbaceous above.

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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.

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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.

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