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fruticant

fruticant adjective: full of shoots.

Adjective

fruticant (comparative more fruticant, superlative most fruticant)

  1. (obsolete) Full of shoots.
    • These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal...

Forms of fruticant

comparativemore fruticant
superlativemost fruticant

Origin of fruticant

From Latin fruticans, present participle of fruticare (“to become bushy”), from frutex, fruticis (“shrub”).

Questions about fruticant

What does fruticant mean?
Fruticant means full of shoots.
What part of speech is fruticant?
Fruticant is an adjective.

Words near fruticant in the dictionary

  1. frutexes
  2. Fruth
  3. Fruths
  4. frutical
  5. fruticals
  6. fruticant
  7. frutices
  8. fruticeta
  9. fruticetum
  10. fruticose
  11. fruticosely

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