fruticant

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

fruticant (comparative more fruticant, superlative most fruticant)

1. (obsolete, botany) Full of shoots.
   • 1664, 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 Society, […], →OCLC:

     These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique

• “fruticant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

fruticant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fruticō