surculation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɜː(ɹ)kjʊˈleɪʃən/
• Homophone: circulation

Noun

surculation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) purring
   • c. 1684, Sir Thomas Browne, Miscellany Tracts:

     And when insition or grafting, in the Text, is applied unto the Olive Tree, it hath an Emphatical sense, very agreeable unto that Tree which is best propagated this way; not at all by surculation, as Theophrastus observeth, nor well by Seed, as hath been observed.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “surculation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)