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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fruticose

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
fru-ti-cose
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having woody stems and branches; shrubby

adj

Having a shrub-like or hairy thallus attached to the substrate at a single point.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

more fruticose (comparative) most fruticose (superlative)

Derived Forms

fruticosely suffruticose

Frequently Paired Words

fruticulose

Synonyms

shrubby fruticulose

Questions

What does fruticose mean?
Having woody stems and branches; shrubby

How to pronounce fruticose

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