turionn.
/ˈtjʊərɪən/ Botany.
A young shoot rising from the ground, produced from a subterranean bud: see quot. 1894.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [noun] > sucker or side-shoot
scourgea1382
by-sprouting1562
sucker1577
lateral1578
offset1642
spiney1649
side shoot1658
appendix1664
by-shoot1669
water sprout1688
turion1725
tiller1733
surculus1775
suckler1796
suckling1798
offshoot1814
stool1818
base shoot1835
side-tiller1903
toe1952
1693 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. (ed. 2) 203 Turiones, the tender Tops of Trees, that grow yearly.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Turiones, amongst Botanick Writers, are the first young tender shoots or tops which any Plants do annually put forth of the Ground.]
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sallet The gentle Turiones and Tops [of Blite] may be eaten like Asparagus.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §2. 41 In the Turions, or subterranean budding shoots of..perennial herbs.
1894 F. W. Oliver et al. tr. A. Kerner von Marilaun Nat. Hist. Plants I. 624 The scale-leaves..developed on subterranean shoots, especially on bulbs, rhizomes, and turions, differ considerably... By turion..is meant a bud originating laterally on underground stem-structures and developing in the summer into a shoot which rises above the ground.
Derivatives
turioˈniferous adj. producing turions.
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the world > plants > part of plant > shoot, sprout, or branch > [adjective] > having or of the nature of shoot, runner, or sucker
surculous1597
tillered1733
soboliferous1753
turioniferous1828
surculose1845
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Barton).
1900 in B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms
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