frŭtĭcōsus, a, um, adj. [fruticor], full of shrubs or bushes, shrubby, bushy: vimina, Ov. M. 6, 344: (aizoum) a radice, Plin. 25, 13, 102, § 161: arbor (terebinthus), id. 13, 6, 12, § 54: rutae rami fruticosiores, id. 20, 13, 51, § 131: calamus fruticosissimus qui vocatur donax, id. 16, 36, 66, § 165: litora, Ov. H. 2, 121: mare, Plin. 6, 22, 24, § 87.