a. [as if ad. L. *fruticulōs-us, f. *fruticul-us, dim. of FRUTEX.] Resembling a small shrub. Also in comb. form Fruticuloso-.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 331. In the fruticulose or foliaceous species [of Lichens], the medulla is distinctly floccose.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 611. Carnose Alcyonidæ, fruticuloso-ramose.
