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tiges sarmenteuses

English translation: climbing or twining stems; also sarmentose/sarmentous (botany)


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French term or phrase:tiges sarmenteuses
English translation:climbing or twining stems; also sarmentose/sarmentous (botany)
Entered by: Gabrielle Leyden
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14:35 May 9, 2010
French to English translations [PRO]
Botany / Herbal medicine plants
French term or phrase: tiges sarmenteuses
La présence de tiges sarmenteuses, pleines et de fleurs à sépales tomenteux sur les 2 faces signalent une falsification par Clematis vitalba L.


in the above what are tiges sarmenteuses?
Clifford Marcus
Local time: 06:45
climbing or twining stems
Explanation:
In everyday language. "Sarmenteux, sarmenteux = 1) Qui produit beaucoup de sarments [= tendrils]: vigne sarmenteuse; 2) Se dit d'une plante dont la tige est longue, flexible et grimpante) (Larousse Lexis)
Sarment = jeune branche de vigne ou de toute autre plante ligneuse grimpante (Larousse Lexis)
Sarment = climbing or twining stem, vine shoot (ordinary dictionary); tendril (Haensch & Haberkamp de Anton)
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Gabrielle Leyden
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2 +4sarmentose stemsliz askew
4scrambling stems
Rachel Fell
4climbing or twining stemsGabrielle Leyden


  

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climbing or twining stems


Explanation:
In everyday language. "Sarmenteux, sarmenteux = 1) Qui produit beaucoup de sarments [= tendrils]: vigne sarmenteuse; 2) Se dit d'une plante dont la tige est longue, flexible et grimpante) (Larousse Lexis)
Sarment = jeune branche de vigne ou de toute autre plante ligneuse grimpante (Larousse Lexis)
Sarment = climbing or twining stem, vine shoot (ordinary dictionary); tendril (Haensch & Haberkamp de Anton)
HTH!

Gabrielle Leyden
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sarmentose stems


Explanation:
sarmentose - Online Dictionary English Thesaurus Reference, UK
(a) Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem. ...
www.onlinedictionary.co.uk/reference/dictionary.jsp?q=sarme... - Cached

IngentaConnect Salmonberry and salal annual aerial stem production ...
Annual sprouting of aerial stems and ramets enables populations of salmonberry ... La production annuelle de repousses par les tiges aériennes et les ramets ...
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nrc/cjfr/2001/00000031/.../a...

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The genera of North American plants: and a catalogue of the ... - Google Books Result
Thomas Nuttall - 1818 - Science
CLEMATIS. L. (Virgin's Bower.) Calix none. Petals 4, more rarely 5. Seeds compressed, caudate, cauda mostly plumose. Stems often shrubby, sarmentose or more ...
books.google.co.uk/books?id=EmAYAAAAYAAJ...

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Sarmentose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sarmentose may refer to: Sarmentose (botany), a type of plant which has long slender stolons; Sarmentose (chemistry), a type of sugar ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmentose - Cached - Similar
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sarmentose: Definition from Answers.com
sarmentose ( ) adj. Botany Having slender prostrate stolons, as in the strawberry. ... Sarmentose (botany), a type of plant which has long slender stolons ...
www.answers.com/topic/sarmentose - Cached
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prostrate: Definition, Synonyms from Answers.com
Botany. Growing flat along the ground. .... Runner · lie · Creeping · vesicoprostatic · sarmentose (botany); heterotrichous (botany); Endorectal probe (in ...
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sarmentose - definition of sarmentose by the Free Online ...
sarmentose [sɑːˈmɛntəʊs], sarmentous [sɑːˈmɛntəs], sarmentaceous [ˌsɑːmənˈteɪʃəs]. adj. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) (of plants such as ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/sarmentose - Cached - Similar

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see here too for an exact definition of your Fr. term

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Lv7eJJ4TBrMC&pg=PA343&lpg...

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liz askew
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agree  Constantinos Faridis: Elements of botany: or, Outlines of the natural history of ... - Αποτέλεσμα Google Books Benjamin Smith Barton - 1812 - Botany 1. caulis nudus, a naked stem, or a stem devoid of leaves and hair. ... or sarmentose stem; a slender stem, ... books.google.es/
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agree  Wordeffect
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agree  Travelin Ann: fits the register, IMO
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agree  Gilla Evans: yes, sarmentose/sarmentous are both used - and this is the best term in a botanical description.
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scrambling stems


Explanation:
plants that grow scrambling up using others for support - very typical of some clematises and many others - A very hardy species native to the far east (Korea, Russia) growing on grassy slopes and in forests. This is a scrambling plant which supports itself on shrubs and small trees in the wild

http://www.gardensnorth.com/catalogue/database.cgi?Mode=List...

scrambling sarmenteux adj. lat. sarmentosus
http://www.mobot.org/mobot/glossary/list.asp?list=english

Clematis 'Arabella' - shoot
Clematis 'Arabella'. 'Arabella' is a semi-herbaceous perennial with scrambling stems and green leaves. In summer and early autumn it bears violet flowers ...
www.shootgardening.co.uk/sitePlant.php?plantid...clematis..... -

[PDF]
The International Clematis Register and Checklist 2002
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View
International Clematis Register & Checklist 2002 3rd Supplement ...... with creeping or scrambling stems 0.5–1 m. Lvs mid-green, simple, regularly toothed. ...
www.rhs.org.uk/getattachment/.../3rd-Clematis-Supplement.as... -

Catalog C
Rocky Mountain Clematis. scrambler, to 5'. Scrambling stems with pendulous violet-blue flowers in early summer that flare outward to reveal a cluster of ...
www.laporteavenuenursery.com/html/catalog_c.html

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The fluffy fruits give this plant its other name - 'Old-man's-beard'.
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The flowers are visited by many bees and flies, attracted by both pollen and nectar.
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Being a scrambler rather than a twiner, it does less harm to supporting vegetation than honeysuckle, but it can smother young shrubs

http://www-saps.plantsci.cam.ac.uk/trees/clematis.htm

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May 16, 2010 - Changes made by Gabrielle Leyden:
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