A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

fruticans,-antis (part.B): fruticant, becoming shrubby, ‘growing into a shrublike plant’ (Jackson) [> L. frutico,-avi,-atum 1. To put forth shoots, to bush out; to sprout; “(of a stag) to branch out (in antlers); (of hair) to grow thickly” (Glare)]; = frutescens,-entis (part.B).

fruticat: third-person singular present active indicative: [he/she] it sprouts; puts forth shoots; becomes shrubby;

-Juniperus quoque apud nos in ericetis frequentissima, caesa aut a jumentis depasta plerunque [sic] fruitcat; sin permittatur nec violetur in arborem adolescit (Ray), the Juniper [s.f.II], also, among our people is very common in heath-lands, after having been cut down or grazed upon by draught animals, usually becomes bushy; but if it is left untended nor molested it grows up [i.e. matures] into a tree.