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fruticare

fruticare [CL] 1 to put forth shoots (in quot., fig.). ligna late ~antis ecclesiae Bede Sam. 668. 2 (of hair) to grow thick and bushy. Angli superius labrum pilis incessanter fructicantibus intonsum dimittunt W. Malm. GR III 239; ~antibus pilis horrebant manus [sc. Esau] J. Sal. Pol. 394D; nil fruticantibus genarum vellere Walt. Wimb. Palpo 175.

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