suckers
Meanings
Rejet, gourmand
Examples :
""The gardener pruned the rose bush, carefully cutting away the suckers growing from below the graft to ensure the desired rose variety would thrive." "
Le jardinier a taillé le rosier, coupant soigneusement les rejets poussant en dessous du greffon pour s'assurer que la variété de rose désirée prospérerait.
Examples :
Ventouse
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.