(a.) Pertaining to a shrub or shrubs; branching like a shrub; shrubby; shrublike; as, a fruticose stem.
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Shrubby
Definition:
(superl.) Full of shrubs.
(superl.) Of the nature of a shrub; resembling a shrub.
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(1) Two autoptic cases of chondroosteoplastic tracheopathy yielded features defining the lesion: continuous shrubby proliferation of the inner surface of tracheal cartilages developed bony lamellae in connection with cells of mucosa.
(2) A shrubby plant, abundant in east Kenya, Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Brig., was shown to exhibit repellent and acaricidal properties to larvae, nymphs and adult Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and Amblyomma variegatum ticks.
(3) Europe’s largest lizards chase after tawny pipit birds on the giant dunes, which are protected by gorse, bright yellow Medicago marina and shrubby everlasting.
(4) Adult ticks were more common in high-shrub habitats (shrubby vegetation greater than or equal to 1 m high) than in grassy and lowshrub habitats (vegetation less than 1 m) in spring and fall.