longshoot

noun

Etymology

From long + shoot.

  1. inherited from *skeutaną
  2. inherited from *skeutan
  3. inherited from scēotan
  4. inherited from scheten
  5. compounded as longshoot — “long + shoot

Definitions

  1. A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.

    • The section includes also combination bucket and suction dredges, true suction dredgers, the Friihling dredge, the reclamation dredge, the longshoot dredge, the hopper barge, the self-propelling hopper, and the rock cutter.
  2. A long unbranching section of growth.

    • It is likely that in future, standard meadow orchard applications will be with GA4/ 7 at 400 micrograms per ml painted on to buds with the potential to initiate strobili, at the time of longshoot differentiation.
    • Some of this carbon may have been obtained at the expense of root and longshoot growth: the defoliated trees did not produce any longshoots, whereas the control trees did.
    • Leaves of vegetative shoots are alternate simple, deciduous; vegetative longshoot blades 2–9 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide; broadly elliptic, ovate, or nearly orbicular, broadest at or below the middle;

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