Etymology

frutescent

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Today it means: Imperfectly resembling a shrub. Full definition →

New Latin frutēscēns
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  1. New Latin · borrowed fromfrutēscēns
  2. English todayfrutescent

About 1750, from New Latin frutēscēns.

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