Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fruticant

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: fru-ti-cant
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Full of shoots.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

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

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

more fruticant (comparative) most fruticant (superlative)

Questions

What does fruticant mean?: Full of shoots.
Where does fruticant come from?: From Latin fruticans, present participle of fruticare (“to become bushy”), from frutex, fruticis (“shrub”).

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