Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A type of dredger that ejects sand and sediment through a long stream.

  2. (countable, uncountable)A long unbranching section of growth.

Origin

From long + shoot.

From long + shoot.

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Forms

plural: longshoots
Singularlongshoot
Plurallongshoots

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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