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surgeon.

shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)

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Meaning & usage

noun/syʁ.ʒɔ̃/
  1. shoot (new growth from the trunk of a tree)

    masculine
  2. offshoot, rebirth (something that is reborn or grows out of something else again)

    figuratively · masculine
  3. offspring, progeny (descendant of someone)

    archaic · masculine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French sourgon, sourjon, from Old French sorjon, sourjon (“source”) (1200s), from a conjugated form of sourdre (see sourjant) + -on, from Latin surgere. The modern spelling dates from 1541.

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