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Translingual
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fruticosus.
Adjective
fruticosus
- (botany) fruticose; used in taxonomic names for organisms
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From frutex (“bush, shrub”) + -ōsus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
fruticōsus (feminine fruticōsa, neuter fruticōsum); first/second-declension adjective
- (botany) bushy, shrubby; fruticose
- Synonyms: frutescens, fruticans
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “fruticosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fruticosus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fruticosus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.