fruticose

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fruticose - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fruticose \Fru"ti*cose`\, a. [L. fruticosus, from frutex,
     fruticis, shrub] (Bot.)
     Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub;
     shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem. --Gray.
     [1913 Webster]

fruticose - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  fruticose
      adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a shrub [syn: shrubby,
             fruticose, fruticulose]