fruticose

English

Adjective

fruticose (comparative more fruticose, superlative most fruticose)

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

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Italian

Adjective

fruticose

  1. feminine plural of fruticoso

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Latin

Adjective

fruticōse

  1. vocative masculine singular of fruticōsus
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