Definition of Surculose

1. a. Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.

Definition of Surculose

1. Adjective. (botany) Producing suckers or sucker-like shoots. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Surculose

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Surculose

surcingle
surcingled
surcingles
surcingling
surcle
surcles
surcloy
surcloyed
surcloying
surcloys
surcoat
surcoated
surcoats
surculation
surculi
surculose (current term)
surculus
surd
surdiny
surdities
surdity
surds
sure
sure-enough(a)
sure-fire
sure-footed
sure-footedness
sure-handed
sure as eggs
sure as eggs is eggs

Literary usage of Surculose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"surculose by short stolons; stems floccose-woolly, i'-4' high. Basal leaves usually numerous, tufted, spatulate or linear-oblong, obtuse, silvery-woolly on ..."

2. Manual of the Botany (Phænogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"Not surculose-stoloniferous : stems simple from the subterranean branching ... surculose-proliferous by either subterranean or leafy shoots or stolons. ..."

3. Text-book of Western Botany: Consisting of Coulter's Manual of the Botany of by John Merle Coulter, Asa Gray (1885)
"Nut surculose-stoloniferous : stem simple from the subterranean branching cen- ... surculose-proliferous by either subterranean or leafy shoots or stolons. ..."

4. Manual of the Botany (Phaenogamia and Pteridophyta) of the Rocky Mountain by John Merle Coulter (1885)
"A'oi surculose-stoloniferous : stems sim/ile from the subterranean branching ... surculose-proliferous by either subterranean or leafy shoots or stolons. ч- ..."

5. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1890)
"surculose—Producing suckers. SUTURE—A line of union, or of dehiscence. SYMMETRICAL—Regular in shape or in the number of its parts. ..."

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