fruticant

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

fruticant (comparative more fruticant, superlative most fruticant)

1. (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[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] 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

1. third-person plural present active indicative of fruticō