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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