fruticulose

1. 1.

   of or relating to or resembling a shrub

   Synonymsshrubbyfruticose

Questions about fruticulose

What does fruticulose mean?

fruticulose means "of or relating to or resembling a shrub".

How many syllables are in fruticulose?

fruticulose has 4 syllables and divides as fru-ti-cu-lose under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fruticulose?

Close synonyms include shrubby, fruticose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fruticulose a common word?

fruticulose is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.