Lewis Short
(verb) : frŭtĭco (ū long in frūtĭcăt arbor, Tert. Judic. Dom. 135), āvi, ātum, , and frŭtĭcor, āri
* V. dep. n. [id.], to put forth shoots, to sprout out, to become bushy.
* Lit.: excisa est arbor, non evulsa: itaque, quam fruticetur, vides,Cic. Att. 15, 4, 2: ubi ex uno semine pluribus culmis fruticavit (triticum),Col. 2, 9, 6; Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 140; 19, 5, 29, § 92; 17, 10, 14, § 70; Sil. 9, 205.
* Poet. transf., of the hair: fruticante pilo,Juv. 9, 15; of a stag's antlers: aspicis, ut fruticat late caput,Calp. Ecl. 6, 37.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary