fruticose

[froo-ti-kohs]

adjective

having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
Botany, Mycology. having branched stalks, as certain lichens.Compare crustose, foliose.

Origin of fruticose

1660–70; < Latin fruticōsus full of shrubs, bushy, equivalent to frutic- (stem of frutex) shrub + -ōsus -ose¹

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Historical Examples of fruticose

Viburna continue; Salix (fruticose) commences about 5,000 feet, continues here and there to Moflong.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The
William Griffith
There are several varieties which assume globular, reniform, stalactitic, and fruticose shapes.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines
Andrew Ure