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名詞

surcle (plural surcles)

1. (obsolete) A little shoot or branch; 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.

参照

• “surcle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• cruels, ulcers