Shoot that grows from an adventitious bud on the base of a tree or shrub, or from an adventitious bud on a root.
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Examples for "sucker"
Examples for "sucker"
1Having secured the sucker, the blacks farm it in their haphazard fashion.
2I'd be a sucker, the biggest sucker in the Gar-hole, Chickie bird.
3The goat sucker makes darts through the air and calls down rain.
4Then it is easily seen that it swims with the sucker uppermost.
5The sucker looked at them and declared that he believed they were.
1On removing at an early stage the main shoots of different plants he observed various abnormalities in the newly formed basal shoots.
1I have been amazed to see what a growth an oak- root sprout will make after its neighbors have been cut away.
2He stopped a moment, glanced down at the pale roots sprouting in Averan's coat.
3An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns.
4"And see those queer-looking roots sprouting out of the ground!"
5I have tried a few, now three years old, and the trees are doing nicely so far, but the roots sprout up where cut.
Translations for root sprout