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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

Suffruticose.

Adj.

[L. sub and fruticosus; frutex, a shrub.]

In botany, under-shrubby, or part shrubby; permanent or woody at the base, but the yearly branches decaying; as sage, thyme,hyssop, &c.

suffruticous ‎(comparative more suffruticous, superlative most suffruticous)