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 agerminating bud .
Etymologies
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New Latin. See propagate.
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