Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having a stem that is woody only at the base; somewhat shrubby.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, only slightly or obscurely woody; a little woody at the base.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Slightly woody at the base.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Slightly woody or shrubby at the base.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin suffrutēscēns, suffrutēscent- : Latin sub-, sub- + New Latin frutēscēns, frutescent (from Latin frutex, shrub).]

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From frutescent.

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Examples

  • Sachet, however, points out that according to historical accounts from the island in 1711, 1825, and likely in 1839, the island had a low grassy and/or suffrutescent (partially woody) vegetation.

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