Definitions for fruticose

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fruticose fru·ti·cose

Spelling: [froo-ti-kohs]

IPA: /ˈfru tɪˌkoʊs/

Fruticose is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 607 anagrams from letters in fruticose (cefiorstu).

Definitions for fruticose

adjective

1. having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
2. Botany, Mycology. having branched stalks, as certain lichens. Compare crustose, foliose.

Origin of fruticose

1660-70; Latin fruticōsus full of shrubs, bushy, equivalent to frutic- (stem of frutex) shrub + -ōsus -ose¹

Examples for fruticose

Viburna continue; Salix (fruticose) commences about 5,000 feet, continues here and there to Moflong.

There are several varieties which assume globular, reniform, stalactitic, and fruticose shapes.