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† surculus Bot. Obs.
Pl. surculi.
[L., = young twig, branch, shoot.]
(See quots. 1775, 1849.)
1775Ash, Surculus, a shoot, a sucker, a slip; a middle branch between the larger and smaller ribs of a leaf. 1826Kirby & Spence Introd. Entomol. III. 227 The cocoon..is fastened by one side to the roots or surculi of Typha latifolia. 1849J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. 639 Surculus, a sucker proceeding from the neck of a plant, and afterwards rooting, as in the Rose. |