fruticant

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adjective

Full of shoots.

OriginLatin fruticans →
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Meanings

adjectivefruticant (comparative more fruticant, superlative most fruticant)

comparative more fruticant · superlative most fruticant

  1. obsoletebiologyFull of shoots.

    These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique

    1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinfruticans
  2. Englishfruticant

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

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APA

fruticant. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruticant

MLA

“fruticant.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruticant. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fruticant,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fruticant.

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