Definition of Sarment

1. n. A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.

Definition of Sarment

1. a type of plant stem [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sarment

1. A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawbwrry. See Runner. Origin: L. Sarmentum a twig, fr. Sarpere to cut off, to trim: cf. F. Sarment. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sarment

sarkiest
sarkily
sarkin
sarking
sarkings
sarkinite
sarkit
sarks
sarky
sarlyk
sarma
sarmale
sarmales
sarmas
sarment (current term)
sarmenta
sarmentaceous
sarmentose
sarmentous
sarments
sarmentum
sarmientite
sarn
sarney
sarneys
sarnie
sarnies
sarns
sarod

Literary usage of Sarment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1909)
"sarment, 91. 12. HUSBAND AND WIFE—Gift not to be Presumed from the Fact that ... sarment, 91. 15. HUSBAND AND WIFE—Giving of a Trust Deed Providing for a ..."

2. Bulletin (Geological Survey of Western Australia). by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1890)
"Il faut choisir un sarment un peu plus long. On ouvre une rigole de 20 à 25 centimètres de profondeur dans laquelle on couche le sarment dont on a fait ..."

3. The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty by California, James Manford Kerr (1907)
"Estate of sarment, 123 Cal. 331. 337. 55 Рас. Rep. 1015. 10. STATUTE PROVIDES NO CONSTRUCTIVE SERVICE OF NOTICE OF APPEAL.— The statute provides no method ..."

4. Digest of the Reports of the Supreme Court of California: Volumes One by James Henry Deering, California Supreme Court (1900)
"(Estate of sarment, 123 Cal. 331.) 84. Mere evidence that au administrator mingled the funds of the estate with his own funds would not justify charging him ..."

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