Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany: A shoot, such as a runner or sucker, which may serve for propagation.
  • noun In algæ, a modified branch by which non-sexual reproduction is effected.
  • noun One of the powder-like grains which form the soredia of lichens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A runner terminated by a germinating bud.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A runner terminated by a germinating bud.

Etymologies

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New Latin. See propagate.

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