suffrutexn.
/ˈsʌfruːtɛks/ Botany.
A plant having a woody base, but a herbaceous annual growth above.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habit > [noun] > shrub or bush > subshrub
bush1529
suffrutex1567
undershrub1598
subshrub1825
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 27 A fourth kind [of plant] which they cal Suffutrex [sic] a mean betwene the Herbe and the shrub.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 115 Odoriferous and ever-green Shrubs and Suffrutices.
a1706 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 509 Herbaceous Suffrutages.
1726 Dict. Rusticum (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.
1866 in J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
<
n.1567