Surculo, súrculas, pe. cor. surculâe. Col. To cutte off shootes or springs from trees: to prune trees.Surcularius. Adiect. Pli. Belonging to shoots: sprigs, or graffs.Surcularius ager. Var.
Surculus, Surculosus, Vide SVRVS.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
surcŭlo, āre, v. a. [id.]. I.To clear of shoots or sprouts, to prune, trim, surculate: plantas, Col. 5, 9, 11.—II.To bind together with twigs, Apic. 4, 5, 183; 7, 2, 261 al.
surcŭlus, i, m., a young twig or branch, a shoot, sprout, sprig (syn. malleolus). I. In gen., Verg. G. 2, 87; Col. 6, 15, 1; Plin. 29, 6, 36, 113; Cels. 5, 26, 35; 8, 10, 6 al.: surculum defringere, Cic. de Or. 3, 28, 110. —II. In partic., a scion, graft, a sucker, slip, set of a plant for growth: da mihi ex istā arbore quos seram surculos, Cic. de Or. 2, 69, 278; Varr. R. R. 1, 40, 6; 1, 41, 2; Col. 3, 1, 1; Plin. 17, 10, 13, 68.—B.A small tree, Col. 3, 28; 7, 4, 4; 7, 12, 10; 9, 4, 2; App. Flor. 2, p. 350, 27: fructus surculorum, Cels. 2, 18.