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)

(obsolete) 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 926218248:
  These we shall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous , Fruticant and shrubby ; Feras and wild ; or more Civiliz'd and domestique

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fruticant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Latin

Verb

fruticant

third-person plural present active indicative of fruticō

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