fruticant

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English

Etymology

From Latin fruticans, present participle of fruticare (“to become bushy”), from frutex, fruticis (“shrub”).

Adjective

fruticant (comparative more fruticant, superlative most fruticant)

(obsolete, botany) Full of shoots.
- 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. , London: Jo Martyn, and Ja Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, , →OCLC:
  These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique

References

“fruticant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

fruticant

third-person plural present active indicative of fruticō

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