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Definition of Fruticulose
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a shrub.
Definition of Fruticulose
1. a. Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
Definition of Fruticulose
1. Adjective. (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Fruticulose
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fruticulose
Literary usage of Fruticulose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phytogeography of Nebraska: I. General Survey by Roscoe Pound, Frederic Edward Clements (1900)
"fruticulose LICHENS.—These are characterized by a more or less branched, upright,
... The number of fruticulose lichens in Nebraska is 11. ..."
2. A Synopsis of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1882)
"Thallus fruticulose, or pendulous; somewhat leathery. 2. RAMALINA. Disk and
thallus pale. ... Thallus either fruticulose, or depressed and dilated ..."
3. Genera Lichenum: An Arrangement of the North American Lichens by Edward Tuckerman (1872)
"The already observed nisus of the crustaceous thallus to elevate itself to the
foliaceous, and even the fruticulose, is repeated, often on a larger scale ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Thallus fruticulose or foliaceous, with woolly medulla. ... Thallus stellate-orbicular,
rarely fruticulose, internally with wooll) medulla; ..."
5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1900)
"species of Stereocaulon, where the primary thallus, composed of granules and
scales, gives rise to much-branched fruticulose structures, the stronger ..."
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