surcle

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin surculus. Doublet of surculus.

Noun

surcle (plural surcles)

  1. (obsolete) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
    • 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus:
      And even that seeds themselves in their rudimentall discoveries appear in foliaceous surcles, or sprouts within their coverings, in a diaphanous gellie, before deeper incrassation, is also visibly verified in Cherries, Acorns, Plums.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “surcle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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