English

Noun

suffrutex ‎(plural suffrutices)

1. A subshrub.
   • 1691, John Ray, The Wiſdom of God Manifeſted in the Works of the Creation, William Innys and Richard Manby at the West-End of St. Paul’s (tenth edition, 1735), “A Diſcourſe in the Perſon of Almighty God to Man”, page 162:

     Till and manure thy Fields, ſow them with thy Seeds; extirpate noxious and unprofitable Herbs; guard them from the Invaſion and Spoil of Beaſts; clear and fence in thy Meadows and Paſtures; dreſs and prune thy Vines, and ſo rank and diſpoſe them as is moſt ſuitable to the Climate; plant thee Orchards, with all Sorts of Fruit-Trees, in ſuch Order as may be moſt beautiful to the Eye, and moſt comprehenſive of Plants; Gardens for culinary Herbs, and all Kinds of Salleting; for delectable Flowers, to gratify the Eye with their agreeable Colours and Figures, and thy Scent with their fragrant Odours; for Odoriferous and Ever-green Shrubs and Suffrutices; for Exotick and Medicinal Plants of all Sorts; and diſpoſe them in that comely Order, as may be both pleaſant to behold, and commodious for Acceſs.

Related terms

• suffrutescent
• suffruticeous, suffruticious
• suffruticose
• suffruticous

Latin

Etymology

New Latin; from sub +‎ frutex.

Pronunciation

• (Classicistic) IPA^(key): /ˈsuf.fru.teks/

Noun

suffrutex m ‎(genitive suffruticis); third declension

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Declension

Third declension.

Related terms

• frutex

Descendants

• English: suffrutex
• Italian: suffrutice
• Spanish: sufrútice

References

• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “suffrutex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• suffrutex in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016