sarmentose

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: sar=men=tose

CIDE DICTIONARY

sarmentose, a. [L. sarmentosus: cf. F. sarmenteux. See Sarment.].

 Long and filiform, and almost naked, or having only leaves at the joints where it strikes root; as, a sarmentose stem.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

sarmentose, adj. (also sarmentous) Bot. having long thin trailing shoots.

Etymology

L sarmentosus f. sarmenta (pl.) twigs, brushwood, f. sarpere to prune