frutescent

American  

[froo-tes-uhnt] / fruˈtɛs ənt /

adjective

Botany.

1. tending to be shrublike; shrubby.

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frutescent British  

/ fruːˈtɛsənt, ˈfruːtɪˌkəʊs, -ˌkəʊz /

adjective

1. 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

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

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

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