soboles

From Latin sobolēs.

• ("shoot, sucker"): IPA^(key): /ˈsɑbəˌliz/, /ˈsoʊ.boʊˌliz/
• (plural of sobole): IPA^(key): /ˈsoʊˌboʊlz/, /ˈsoʊˌbɑlz/

soboles

1. (botany, archaic) A shoot that runs along underground and forms new plants at short distances.
   • 1851, John Hutton Balfour, A Manual of Botany, page 35:

     A soboles is a [...] creeping under-ground stem, sending roots from one part and leaf-buds from another, as in Couch grass,  […]

   • 1860, Robert Fowler, The medical vocabulary, page 306:

     Producing young plants from a soboles.

2. (botany, archaic) A sucker, as of a tree or shrub.

soboles

1. plural of sobole

• “soboles”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “soboles”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “soboles”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “soboles”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

soboles

1. alternative form of subolēs

Third-declension noun.