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Definition of Fruticose
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a shrub.
Definition of Fruticose
1. a. Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
Definition of Fruticose
1. Adjective. (context: of a plant) Having woody stems and branches; shrubby ¹
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Definition of Fruticose
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Fruticose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruticose
Literary usage of Fruticose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"The fruticose Lichens are distinguished as a third group in which the thallus rises
... In crustaceous, foliaceous, and fruticose lichens, the algal cells ..."
2. Hand-book of Indian Flora: Being a Guide to All the Flowering Plants by Herber Drury (1866)
"fruticose, very softly tomentose, hoary : leaves ovate, obtuse at the base: peduncles
... fruticose : bracteoles sterile outside the branches, twin, ..."
3. An Historical, Political and Statistical Account of Mauritius and Its by Charles Pridham (1849)
"... fruticose, leaves tomentose below, there is another variety, resembling the
preceding by its port and the position of the flowers, ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"These old tali, for reasons stated elsewhere in this paper, support lichen
societies composed for the most part of foliose lichens or fruticose forms, ..."
5. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"small: becoming fruticose: leaves cordate-3-lobed, sharply dentate, glabrous,
nerves and petioles recurve-aculeate: slip* aculeate: ..."
6. Text-book of Botany: Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1875)
"In Cladonia and Stereocaulon we have not so much a transition from the foliaceous
to the fruticose thallus as a combination of the two, a foliaceous ..."
7. A Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger (1898)
"These different zones are most plainly seen in the fruticose Lichens, ... One of
the commonest species of fruticose Lichens belonging to this group is Usnea ..."
8. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"Gelatinous to crusta- ceous, scaly foliose to fruticose, with Nostoc hosts. ...
Foliose to fruticose, with ..."
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