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fruticose

fruticose adjective: having woody stems and branches; shrubby.

Adjective

fruticose (comparative more fruticose, superlative most fruticose)

  1. Having woody stems and branches; shrubby
    • Fruticose lichens drape and tuft; crustose and squamulose lichens creep and seep; foliose lichens layer and flake.2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 84
  2. Having a shrub-like or hairy thallus attached to the substrate at a single point.

Forms of fruticose

comparativemore fruticose
superlativemost fruticose

Words formed from fruticose

Questions about fruticose

What does fruticose mean?
Fruticose means having woody stems and branches; shrubby.
What part of speech is fruticose?
Fruticose is an adjective.

Words near fruticose in the dictionary

  1. fruticals
  2. fruticant
  3. frutices
  4. fruticeta
  5. fruticetum
  6. fruticose
  7. fruticosely
  8. fruticous
  9. fruticulescent
  10. fruticuline
  11. fruticulines

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