Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Frutescent \Fru*tes"cent\, a. [L. frulex, fruticis, shrub, bush:
   cf. F. frutescent, L. fruticescens, p. pr.] (Bot.)
   Somewhat shrubby in character; imperfectly shrubby, as the
   American species of Wistaria.