suffruticose

suffruticose
/seuh frooh"ti kohs'/, adj.
woody at the base and herbaceous above.
[1785-95; < NL suffruticosus, equiv. to L suf- SUF- + frutic- (s. of frutex shrub, bush) + -osus -OSE1]

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