What is a slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil called?
runner — (Bot.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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