Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having slender prostrate stolons or branches.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, having sarmenta or runners; having the form or character of a runner.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root.
  • adjective Bearing sarments; sarmentaceous.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective botany Having long, slender, prostrate stolons (runners)
  • noun biochemistry A monosaccharide, with the molecular formula C7H14O4

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sarmentōsus, full of twigs, from sarmentum, twigs.]

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