Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a shoot, or creeping underground stem; also, a sucker, or a shoot in a wider sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.
- noun A sucker, as of tree or shrub.
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Examples
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Timor et moestitia, si diu perseverent, causa et soboles atri humoris sunt, et in circulum se procreant.
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Ipsi quoque Sem soboles, etiam ipse fuit pater omnium filiorum
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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Quod si neque ille masculam prolem reliquisset, tum Robertus eius frater succederet, ac si in illo quoque defecisset soboles, tum ad regem rediret Rossia.
An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait
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"_Cara deúm soboles, magnum Jovis incrementum_" -- "The dear offspring of God, the increase of Jove."
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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Gracchorum stirps, soboles Scipionum, Pauli haeres, cujus vocabulum trahit, Martiae Papyriae Matris Africani vera et germana propago.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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[12] [Footnote 11: See Jerom, tom.i. p. 169, 170, ad Eustochium; he bestows on Paula the splendid titles of Gracchorum stirps, soboles Scipionum,
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765
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