Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having a stem that is woody only at the base; somewhat shrubby.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, only slightly or obscurely woody; a little woody at the base.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Slightly woody or shrubby at the base.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Slightly woody at the base.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year
Etymologies
- From frutescent. (Wiktionary)
- New Latin suffrutēscēns, suffrutēscent- : Latin sub-, sub- + New Latin frutēscēns, frutescent (from Latin frutex, shrub). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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