suckering
Growing lateral offshoots
Suckering is the growth of suckers—shoots that sprout from a plant's roots or base rather than its main stem.
Gardeners remove these to direct energy to productive growth: The tomatoes need suckering this week.
In fishing, suckering means catching suckers, a bottom-feeding freshwater fish.
The verb also means deceiving someone gullible: He's suckering tourists into paying triple.
Deliberately misleading another
- conningDefrauding through deception
- trickingAct of deceiving
- foolingTricking or joking
- scammingDefrauding through deception
deceiving · cheating · hustling · swindling · gullible · mark · victim · ruse
duping
Deliberately misleading another
scamming · deceiving · cheating · hustling · swindling · gullible · mark · victim · ruse · fleecing
rootstock
Base for grafted plants
- clonalGenetically identical copies
- rhizomeHorizontal underground plant stem
- runnersThose who race on foot
offshoots · division · banana · raspberry · aspen · spreading · colony · transplanting · offspring · vegetative
pruning
Cutting vegetation for health
axil · pinching · growth · vine · removal · grape · tobacco · training · staking · indeterminate
- plant growthbloom, bud, buds, flower, fruit
- plant traitsthorny, spiny, evergreen, deciduous, flowering
- propagationcloning, seed starting, grafting, cuttings, seedlings
- tobacco farmingtobacco leaf, tobacco leaves, tobacco fields, tobacco field, tobacco barn
- fooling aroundjoking, kidding, jesting, fooling, teasing
- plant biologyphotosynthesis, chloroplast, pollination, stamen, pistil
suckeringseeding
Planting or ranking
sexual reproduction · pollination · grafting · germination · layering
suckeringbeing honest
Stating facts sincerely
leveling with · enlightening · informing · empowering · helping
suck, sucker, succulent, suction, sucking, suckers, suckle, sucked, sucks