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Definition of Suffrutescent
1. Adjective. Of a plant; having a woody base that does not die down each year.
Definition of Suffrutescent
1. a. Slightly woody at the base.
Definition of Suffrutescent
1. Adjective. (botany) Slightly woody at the base. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffrutescent
Literary usage of Suffrutescent
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"Herbs or suffrutescent plants (N. & S. American), glabrous, often glutinous; with
narrowly linear and entire alternate leaves, and small heads of yellow ..."
2. The British Flower Garden: Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of ...by Robert Sweet by Robert Sweet (1838)
"It appears tobe admirably adapted for a rock-work, where it forms a suffrutescent
bush, producing its flowers in great profusion, and for several months ..."
3. The British Flower Garden, (series the Second): Containing Coloured Figures by Robert Sweet (1833)
"It appears tobe admirably adapted for a rock-work, where it forms a suffrutescent
bush, producing its flowers in great profusion, and for several months ..."
4. Cistinae: The Natural Order of Cistus, Or Rock-rose; Illustrated by Coloured by Robert Sweet (1830)
"Stem suffrutescent, erect : branches clothed with shaggy down ; leaves ...
suffrutescent, hairy: branches spreading, clothed with close-pressed white hairs ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"suffrutescent: Ivs. broadly ovate, 2-4 in. long: peduncles slender, ...
suffrutescent: Ivs. medium size, ovate or oblong-acuminate, about 1/4-3H in. ..."
6. Text-book of Western Botany: Consisting of Coulter's Manual of the Botany of by John Merle Coulter, Asa Gray (1885)
"Mostly suffrutescent or more shrubby plants, generally few-flowered, ... ranks are
more or less apparent: low and suffrutescent, with linear entire leaves, ..."
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