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

  • noun A dormant vegetative bud that detaches from the parent plant, found especially in certain aquatic plants.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A scaly shoot from a subterranean bud, becoming a new stem, as those annually produced by many perennial herbs, as the asparagus, the hop, and many grasses.

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

  • noun (Bot.) Same as turio.

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

  • noun botany A bud, produced by some aquatic plants, that becomes detached and dormant until the following spring

Etymologies

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

[Latin turiō, turiōn-.]

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