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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

frutex

fruticis

, shrub, bush: cf. F.

frutescent

, L.

fruticescens

p. pr.

]

(Bot.)

Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the American species of

Wisteria

Adj.

[L. frutex, a shrub.] In botany, from herbaceous becoming shrubby; as a frutescent stem.

frutescent ‎(comparative more frutescent, superlative most frutescent)