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Webster 1913 Edition

Fruticose

Fru′ti-coseˊ

,

Adj.

[L.

fruticosus

, from frutex,

fruticis

, shrub]

(Bot.)

Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike;

as, a

fruticose

stem

.

Gray.