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‖ suffrutex Bot.|ˈsʌfruːtɛks|
Pl. suffrutices |sʌˈfruːtɪsiːz|; also 7 erron. -ages (but cf. fruitage 3).
[mod.L., f. suf- = sub- 23 + frutex.]
A plant having a woody base, but a herbaceous annual growth above.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 27 A fourth kind [of plant] which they cal Suffutrex [sic] a mean betwene the Herbe and the shrub. 1691Ray Creation i. (1692) 154 Odoriferous and ever-green Shrubs and Suffrutices. a1706Evelyn Silva (1776) 509 Herbaceous Suffrutages. 1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), Suffrutex, is a low Woody perennial Plant, that sends out no leaves from its Roots; and beginning to be branch'd from the very bottom of the Stalk, as Lavender, Sage, Rue, and the like. 1866in Treas. Bot. |