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fruticose
American
[froo-ti-kohs]
/ ˈfru tɪˌkoʊs /
adjective
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having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
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Botany, Mycology. having branched stalks, as certain lichens.
Etymology
Origin of fruticose
1660–70; < Latin fruticōsus full of shrubs, bushy, equivalent to frutic- (stem of frutex ) shrub + -ōsus -ose 1
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