Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Botany Having slender prostrate stolons, as in the strawberry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, having sarmenta or runners; having the form or character of a runner.
Wiktionary
- adj. botany Having long, slender, prostrate stolons (runners)
- n. biochemistry A monosaccharide, with the molecular formula C7H14O4
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root.
- adj. Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.
Etymologies
- Latin sarmentōsus, full of twigs, from sarmentum, twigs. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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