单词 | root sucker |
释义 | > as lemmasroot sucker root sucker n. ΚΠ 1781 S. Fullmer Young Gardener's Best Compan. 287 If those of the side-slips and cuttings in particular, not being furnished with roots, as in the root-suckers, are plunged in a bark-bed, it will greatly forward their rooting. 1889 W. Schlich Man. Forestry I. 10 The trees consist of stool shoots or root suckers which are cut over periodically. 1916 E. V. Wilcox Trop. Agric. xii 180 They [sc. bowstring hemps] require little care or cultivation, spread readily by root suckers and grow wild over large areas. 2006 B. E. Juniper & D. J. Mabberley Story of Apple ii. 65 If the mother tree, with its shading crown, remains healthy and effective, the growth of root suckers may be inhibited. < as lemmas |
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