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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having a stem that is woody only at the base; somewhat shrubby.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, only slightly or obscurely woody; a little woody at the base.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Slightly woody at the base.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Slightly woody at the base.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year

Etymologies

  1. New Latin suffrutēscēns, suffrutēscent- : Latin sub-, sub- + New Latin frutēscēns, frutescent (from Latin frutex, shrub).

Examples

  • “Sachet, however, points out that according to historical accounts from the island in 1711, 1825, and likely in 1839, the island had a low grassy and/or suffrutescent (partially woody) vegetation.”

    Clipperton Island shrub and grasslands

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    Rational Review

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